I think the flat Earth movement is secretly brilliant. Reading through the stuff on Twitter, for example, reads like a debate on any political matter. I have to think that the leaders(?) of the movement are in on the joke and it’s intended to be a proxy/parody of other debates of controversial matters. The real-life results (as shown in the poll) flow from that.
Given that one of those FE guys
How…dare you?
LOL! Sorry! Jedited