Are you supportive of the real world?

[Bucky]

Poll question: Are you supportive of the real world?

In reality, about 90% of Democrats support the president according to the latest poll. His drop in national support comes from moderate Republicans and somewhat less so from independents. On TV and the internets word is that we've already abandoned him en masse and will either kamikazi vote in Noam Chomsky in 2012 or will protest vote for the Republican in hopes of getting a new Democratic president in 2016 or are so discouraged that we can't even get off the couch and file for shovel ready project grants from the National Endowment for the Humanity's Homeland Security projects.

So it comes down to this--do you support reality or do you reject reality as the pale farce it's always been? If you can't answer this question, then, who's you're favorite Muppet?

[Jennicut]

1. If anyone believes that DU represents all Dems out there they are sadly mistaken.

Most people don't even know DU exists....or Free Republic. My mother in law voted for Obama and has no idea what DU is.

[Bucky]

2. I envy her. I loathe my addiction to this place.

There is no 12 step group for what's wrong with me.

[Jennicut]

6. Me too. I left for a few weeks and then came back.

A break was needed though.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. "Most people don't even know DU exists"

So true.

[bigwillq]

9. Agree. DU is not reality.

I just laugh when some DUers blame the current political climate on DU or DUers. Someone blamed DU on Scott Brown winning a Senate seat in Mass. Yes, because it's all a message boards fault. :rofl:

[jonnyblitz]

12. yeah I read that in the BOG.

:crazy:

[bigwillq]

17. I made a few posts

to the BOG! Quite the interesting forum.

[demmiblue]

3. Do you have a link?

I just got home, so I have no idea what this poll is all about.

TIA

[Drunken Irishman]

5. It's the new NBC poll. And only 27% of Americans blame Pres. Obama for the current shit-storm.

Most blame Republicans.

[demmiblue]

7. OK, I saw another post about an MSNBC poll...

but I didn't see a link with that either.

:shrug:

[Bucky]

8. Hey, it's on the Internet! You know "The" Internet. How could it not be true?

So cynical, you kids these days.

[dave29]

10. I wish I could buy you a beer... it seems like you need one

:)

[demmiblue]

15. A little slow, but point taken!

[lunatica]

11. What does 'neither nor non...' mean?

[Bucky]

13. It's a "your mileage may vary" option. If you're a fence sitter or a reality agnostic or...

someone who just can't decide whether to sit on the fence or kick the reality can down the perceptual road, this is a one size fits all cop-out-from-copping-out snooze button on the alarm clock of life's little mixed metaphors. Get it?

No? Good, that's the point!

 

[lunatica]

19. OK. I get it

[depakid]

14. I support educating people about what polling snapshots reflect (hint: it's not "reality"

or political dynamics).

Of course, that's an unorthodox position- though quite valid which is why people continually cite cheap polls supporting one thing or another- and then are baffled why they turn out to be anything but Gospel once actual reality sets in.

[Bucky]

16. You sound like one of those "real-worlders". Bah. You might as well be a grown up.

I suppose you only expect "reasonable progress" from the Obama administration instead of instant liberal hegemony and pet unicorns by last Christmas.

[depakid]

18. Pretty simple, really

A lot of us would like to see public policy that's actually designed to measurably improve (or help solve) problems in a timely manner- which in turn leads to political gains for progressive Democrats.

Also, a lot of us would like to see the party of science actually listen to and follow the advice of people who study political and voter behavior- people like Professor's Westen and Lakoff, for starters. Ironically, it's all too often the party embracing fundamentalism that puts the principles into play. Thus- they manage to win the elections (and policy fight after policy fight) even when they're on the verge of having been relegated to the fringe for a generation.

One day someone may well write a great tragedy about all of this this- with the protagonist's hamartia in the present case being an unfortunate and irresistible predisposition toward conciliation and conflict aversion.