Biden well on his way to being the best president in US History, because he
was the president we needed during these difficult times.
His positive poll numbers are over 70%. And there are probably lots of reasons for this to happen. The last time I have seen something like this happened during Bill Clinton's presidency when the House wanted him impeached. Almost in direct response to the House's desire to send Clinton packing in disgrace, his poll numbers went up to 67%. I think some of Biden's meteoric poll numbers are also in response to the new Republican House's announcement that they're going to try to make Biden's presidency weak by investigating everything that Biden loves. Major, beware. They're coming for you next!
But, Biden's term will be remembered as the turning point, where good people put country before whatever other reason that Republicans float to win their votes at the last minute. They're good at fearmongering, using racist tropes. They're also good at promising lower taxes, though, by now people are catching on that the money is fleeting. Not like what Democrats promise with long-term safety nets like social security, medicare/medicaid, better wages etc. It's a difference that Democrats can and should trumpet louder, in my opinion, but I guess we're keeping our powder dry, timing it prior to the next election.
I just feel, that the media is getting it, especially by reporting these gun shootings, and showing the testimonials from the survivors. It really is gripping and raw. And gun control is going to turn into a major issue for the next election. Especially when the shooters are being connected to the Republican hate agenda.
I do see a pattern here. Just like in sales, the consumer has to see a need before they're sold. The incredible circumstances that we're living under, created by a major division in our country, generated a need that most voters could not ignore. We won this last midterm election because the Democrats promised to protect freedoms that many of us took for granted. The Roe decision was the obvious voter issue. But there were others. i.e. How America should function was the major one for me, because it would define the identity of this country for the remainder of my lifetime. Who gets to select the electors was one of those self-determining technicalities. Democrats believed the voters should decide. Republican intellectuals twisted their logic and shoved their heads up their rectum to come up with the conclusion that Republican controlled State legislators should have the right to toss the decision of the people, and the State Legislature should make the selection. We would have lost the United States as we grew up to know it, if they had succeeded.
I don't think it's possible to exaggerate, here. We dodged a bullet.
The same issues that pushed us forward in the midterms, will still be there for the next election. And they will continue to be a concern until we pass laws that can protect all of us from Republican Taliban-style leadership. No doubt that we need better representation in Congress to pass the kind of laws that Republicans want to take away. We need to make our freedoms bullet proof.
So, the sad thing is that we will pick up steam with more media attention on the testimonials of survivors. Not just from gun shootings, but the misery created by the draconian anti-abortion State laws. And, the best we can hope for from the terrible human toll, is that we have clear issues that voters are convinced that only the Democrats can handle.
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Of course we suspected it then, and we KNOW it now.
Biden handled himself perfectly during the campaign season. He supported the Dem candidates. He gave great speeches, and he supported positive, meaningful legislation when it REALLY MATTERED. In short, Biden was and is a true leader.
I don't listen to pollsters, nor do I read pre-election garbage in the media where certain people try to spin the so-called poll numbers. The amount of pre-election BS hit a new high this year - but the media had it all wrong! This is the take-home, this is what we need to remember. The media was wrong from the getgo, but some Dems bought it anyway.
I got into hot water when I criticized the horrid Trump Christmas decorations to a friend of mine. It turns out, she knew the people who put it together.
Learned more about her conservative leanings with that incident than I had in all the years I had known her.
