Exactly. It gets all the headlines, as does Biden’s “low numbers”, without explaination, and allows listeners to just assume it’s his fault, instead of giving the reasons of worldwide inflation, and unprecedented propaganda attacks from the right and from foreign actors. In the past, people have come together to support whoever is the pr…
Exactly. It gets all the headlines, as does Biden’s “low numbers”, without explaination, and allows listeners to just assume it’s his fault, instead of giving the reasons of worldwide inflation, and unprecedented propaganda attacks from the right and from foreign actors. In the past, people have come together to support whoever is the president, at least to some degree-but now the division fueling the authoritarian takeover is meaning that Americans are turning against their own democracy.
Oh, I think they are turning against a fight. We are remarkably comfortable at the higher economic levels of this culture and at the lower levels we are too desperate thinking about the basics of survival to pay any attention to. the politicians, like Biden, who are quietly doing their jobs. To get the attention of those who need to hear what we have to say the most requires a lot of noise and a touch of ugliness. The Republicans have a lot of both. I don't think Americans are necessarily turning against our democracy as much as they/we are reacting with confusion to a genuinely insane situation. It's classic, really. We turn against whoever seems to have the power to feed our children or get our jobs back, see that our kids stay hungry and our men and women stay home because there's no work, and we hear the voice of the carnival barker promising everything we want. Thanks for bringing this up, Wendy. It's a real horror show
Exactly. It gets all the headlines, as does Biden’s “low numbers”, without explaination, and allows listeners to just assume it’s his fault, instead of giving the reasons of worldwide inflation, and unprecedented propaganda attacks from the right and from foreign actors. In the past, people have come together to support whoever is the president, at least to some degree-but now the division fueling the authoritarian takeover is meaning that Americans are turning against their own democracy.
Oh, I think they are turning against a fight. We are remarkably comfortable at the higher economic levels of this culture and at the lower levels we are too desperate thinking about the basics of survival to pay any attention to. the politicians, like Biden, who are quietly doing their jobs. To get the attention of those who need to hear what we have to say the most requires a lot of noise and a touch of ugliness. The Republicans have a lot of both. I don't think Americans are necessarily turning against our democracy as much as they/we are reacting with confusion to a genuinely insane situation. It's classic, really. We turn against whoever seems to have the power to feed our children or get our jobs back, see that our kids stay hungry and our men and women stay home because there's no work, and we hear the voice of the carnival barker promising everything we want. Thanks for bringing this up, Wendy. It's a real horror show