Because he is not a political thug President Biden will be treated much the same way President Carter was treated after leaving office. Biden facilitated the creation of record job numbers. Biden elevated more judges to the bench. Biden took climate change seriously and on and on and on. It is not that Biden was a poor POTUS. It is that a plurality of citizens have lost their ability or interest in seeing reality as it is rather than as they wish it to be. In thinking clearly and with curiosity about the leaders they support. There is something wrong with the voters for Trump. Soon we will understand what that is. IMO!!!
A lot of the people who swung the election to Trump, I don't think there was anything wrong with them. They aren't paying attention, and Biden didn't command and demand their attention, so they don't know.----Jason
Perhaps you are correct. I would simply ask is it that they are not paying attention or could it be that there is an ongoing covert, sometimes overt effort to aid and assist in undermining the ability of citizens to think critically? Many online platforms have this as part of their agenda. Politicians including trump say it openly; DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE!!! AI will contribute massively to discontinuing critical thinking capacity in humans. It is a big bite with choking danger but I think it is an important factor. I also think (am qualified to have an opinion) that a large part of the population suffers from a level of maladaptive denial that has become toxic and explains the refrain "they do not care". Correct. But why?
I think it is harder for people to pay attention when we have large media committed to legitimizing false statements or at least equating them with reality. Being informed in today's environment for someone who doesn't follow politics is challenging.---Jason
Really sad that viewers of Fox News and of other conservative news outlets do not have the ability check out what they are hearing. Apparently, they tune into the entertainment channel, Fox News, or other conservative news sources, and don't check out what what they heard. They bought what Trump wanted them to get, and tuned out everything else. It was easy and did not require you to be well informed. Now, many will pay with Medicaid being reduced or lowered benefits, and other programs that affect them or their family members. It is sad to see what gullibility and laziness will do to your lives, and to so many American's lives.
I'm not sure I agree with your last sentence. I have trumpers in my own family. Trying to understand why they support Trump is a mystery. They live in a fact-free world regarding Trump. When you confront them with one verifiable fact after another of the multitude of lies and cheating, whether in business or his personal life, you can see them quietly shaking their heads. They simply don't care.
The numbers show that "Trumpers" didn't win the election for him. The election was won by swing voters flipping back to Trump. The notion that Trumpers are all powerful or that every person who voted for Trump is MAGA. A lot of people tuned out on the election and decided to vote for Trump for whatever reason, but MAGA is actually very small and only 30%-33% of the electorate.---Jason
The main thing to understand is that a president's legacy has very little to do with what the extremes on either side of politics think. It has to do with what those in the middle think and how they respond. They responded by throwing out of office a prefectly good president in favor of chaos. Why did they do that? Because they had a job? And all their friends had jobs? No, because one side screamed at them constantly about the bad state of the country. The other side wasted time self-criticizing themselves for every misstep.
So if you're a voter who is paying very little attention to facts and the subtleties of a capitalistic impropriety, your attention goes to the one who talks confidently and never admits mistakes rather than the one peeing their pants over a bad debate performance, a late change in candidacy, a VP candidate who might have (but didn't) resign his commission right before he would have been sent to war in the middle east, and so on.
People who are relying on a high degree of maladaptive denial cannot do anything but deny. To agree on any level would inflict a psychic wound they won't tolerate. As a retired, licensed mental health professional with 36 years of experience I look at all of this from that perspective. Trump is severely mentally ill. So are many powerful, wealthy white men - to some degree or other - who are afflicted with Personality Disorders (see DSM) that simply go unrecognized. Trump is a sick man. There is a problem with a mentally ill, criminal sociopath being elected POTUS.
I've noticed that many "trumpers" seem to lack any intellectual curiosity and are quite happy being spoon fed their news and views. TY for your comments.
It makes no difference what his record is. He's never really had popular support from the American public despite being elected president. It's hard to determine exactly why he has lacked in popular support considering his record. But once his age became a target.........it was all over.
And the Afghanistan withdrawal had a huge negative impact on his popularity numbers. Not enough people realize it was never gonna be a pretty movie about Afghans throwing flowers and kisses to the departing Americans. It was ugly and deadly as it was setup to be by the previous admin.
Biden is underrated because of Trump and Fox News. It has been a constant drum beat for the last four years how Biden doesn't measure up to Trump's presidency. I mean constant! I don't think Fox News knows how to say one positive thing about Biden, let alone give him credit for the biggest job creation in modern history. Fox News viewers have lost the ability to critically think, or for that matter think for themselves. These same Fox News viewers are Trump supporters, who are constantly hearing lies from Trump and Republicans. they no longer have the ability to vote for what is in their best interests!
CNN wasn't much better. The only channel/network that was telling the truth and hammering home how much of a danger MAGA and its leader is MSNBC - which stories are starting to say Elon Skum is targeting. I hope the owners stay strong and defy him.
Biden did a great job on job creation. However, he underestimated the effect of inflation. If he would have pushed for having the various stimulus programs becoming permanent for American families, the Democrats would be in complete control now. Even if he couldn’t have saved many programs, he should have had his people talking about it every day. EVERY DAY! They should have beaten the Republicans over the head with the issue of economic support unending. Instead, he and his advisers misread the midterms and became supremely overconfident. His team became a classic example of what happens when one stops listening. Stops watching. Stops looking beyond your immediate vicinity. They only heard what they wanted to hear. Are there ignorant and prejudiced people out there? Yes, there were people like that years ago & there will be people like that in the future. We cannot blame the voters. Did they make the wrong choice? DAMN RIGHT THEY DID! What are we to do now? You know what? The election is over, we lost. Get up, dust yourself off, get pissed! Not at the world , at ourselves. The Party & every supporter must vow to never, NEVER, allow this to
happen again. Let’s get to work. And that means work hard, work smart, work open minded, work relentless!
Because he is not a political thug President Biden will be treated much the same way President Carter was treated after leaving office. Biden facilitated the creation of record job numbers. Biden elevated more judges to the bench. Biden took climate change seriously and on and on and on. It is not that Biden was a poor POTUS. It is that a plurality of citizens have lost their ability or interest in seeing reality as it is rather than as they wish it to be. In thinking clearly and with curiosity about the leaders they support. There is something wrong with the voters for Trump. Soon we will understand what that is. IMO!!!
A lot of the people who swung the election to Trump, I don't think there was anything wrong with them. They aren't paying attention, and Biden didn't command and demand their attention, so they don't know.----Jason
Perhaps you are correct. I would simply ask is it that they are not paying attention or could it be that there is an ongoing covert, sometimes overt effort to aid and assist in undermining the ability of citizens to think critically? Many online platforms have this as part of their agenda. Politicians including trump say it openly; DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE!!! AI will contribute massively to discontinuing critical thinking capacity in humans. It is a big bite with choking danger but I think it is an important factor. I also think (am qualified to have an opinion) that a large part of the population suffers from a level of maladaptive denial that has become toxic and explains the refrain "they do not care". Correct. But why?
I think it is harder for people to pay attention when we have large media committed to legitimizing false statements or at least equating them with reality. Being informed in today's environment for someone who doesn't follow politics is challenging.---Jason
Really sad that viewers of Fox News and of other conservative news outlets do not have the ability check out what they are hearing. Apparently, they tune into the entertainment channel, Fox News, or other conservative news sources, and don't check out what what they heard. They bought what Trump wanted them to get, and tuned out everything else. It was easy and did not require you to be well informed. Now, many will pay with Medicaid being reduced or lowered benefits, and other programs that affect them or their family members. It is sad to see what gullibility and laziness will do to your lives, and to so many American's lives.
I'm not sure I agree with your last sentence. I have trumpers in my own family. Trying to understand why they support Trump is a mystery. They live in a fact-free world regarding Trump. When you confront them with one verifiable fact after another of the multitude of lies and cheating, whether in business or his personal life, you can see them quietly shaking their heads. They simply don't care.
The numbers show that "Trumpers" didn't win the election for him. The election was won by swing voters flipping back to Trump. The notion that Trumpers are all powerful or that every person who voted for Trump is MAGA. A lot of people tuned out on the election and decided to vote for Trump for whatever reason, but MAGA is actually very small and only 30%-33% of the electorate.---Jason
The main thing to understand is that a president's legacy has very little to do with what the extremes on either side of politics think. It has to do with what those in the middle think and how they respond. They responded by throwing out of office a prefectly good president in favor of chaos. Why did they do that? Because they had a job? And all their friends had jobs? No, because one side screamed at them constantly about the bad state of the country. The other side wasted time self-criticizing themselves for every misstep.
So if you're a voter who is paying very little attention to facts and the subtleties of a capitalistic impropriety, your attention goes to the one who talks confidently and never admits mistakes rather than the one peeing their pants over a bad debate performance, a late change in candidacy, a VP candidate who might have (but didn't) resign his commission right before he would have been sent to war in the middle east, and so on.
People who are relying on a high degree of maladaptive denial cannot do anything but deny. To agree on any level would inflict a psychic wound they won't tolerate. As a retired, licensed mental health professional with 36 years of experience I look at all of this from that perspective. Trump is severely mentally ill. So are many powerful, wealthy white men - to some degree or other - who are afflicted with Personality Disorders (see DSM) that simply go unrecognized. Trump is a sick man. There is a problem with a mentally ill, criminal sociopath being elected POTUS.
Dementia is part of the problem, he's sun downing faster than he was when he lost in 2020 ✌🏻💙
I've noticed that many "trumpers" seem to lack any intellectual curiosity and are quite happy being spoon fed their news and views. TY for your comments.
It makes no difference what his record is. He's never really had popular support from the American public despite being elected president. It's hard to determine exactly why he has lacked in popular support considering his record. But once his age became a target.........it was all over.
And the Afghanistan withdrawal had a huge negative impact on his popularity numbers. Not enough people realize it was never gonna be a pretty movie about Afghans throwing flowers and kisses to the departing Americans. It was ugly and deadly as it was setup to be by the previous admin.
Biden is underrated because of Trump and Fox News. It has been a constant drum beat for the last four years how Biden doesn't measure up to Trump's presidency. I mean constant! I don't think Fox News knows how to say one positive thing about Biden, let alone give him credit for the biggest job creation in modern history. Fox News viewers have lost the ability to critically think, or for that matter think for themselves. These same Fox News viewers are Trump supporters, who are constantly hearing lies from Trump and Republicans. they no longer have the ability to vote for what is in their best interests!
CNN wasn't much better. The only channel/network that was telling the truth and hammering home how much of a danger MAGA and its leader is MSNBC - which stories are starting to say Elon Skum is targeting. I hope the owners stay strong and defy him.
God, I hope he stays strong. We need MSNBC. Now more than ever!
Clinton was in office for eight years. Biden stands alone. We were blessed.
Biden did a great job on job creation. However, he underestimated the effect of inflation. If he would have pushed for having the various stimulus programs becoming permanent for American families, the Democrats would be in complete control now. Even if he couldn’t have saved many programs, he should have had his people talking about it every day. EVERY DAY! They should have beaten the Republicans over the head with the issue of economic support unending. Instead, he and his advisers misread the midterms and became supremely overconfident. His team became a classic example of what happens when one stops listening. Stops watching. Stops looking beyond your immediate vicinity. They only heard what they wanted to hear. Are there ignorant and prejudiced people out there? Yes, there were people like that years ago & there will be people like that in the future. We cannot blame the voters. Did they make the wrong choice? DAMN RIGHT THEY DID! What are we to do now? You know what? The election is over, we lost. Get up, dust yourself off, get pissed! Not at the world , at ourselves. The Party & every supporter must vow to never, NEVER, allow this to
happen again. Let’s get to work. And that means work hard, work smart, work open minded, work relentless!