Polls are strange.
They ask 1000 people their opinion on something and that is supposed to be representative of the ENTIRE country.
I’m sure there are behind the scenes math magic.
After all, you could find a statistic the support just about any viewpoint.
If we have learned anything from 2016 and 2020 polling and the 2022 expectations that fell flat, it is that people know their own minds.
And polls are easily misrepresented, depending on which ideologue you want to push. It is in the telling of the story behind the poll that is becomes relevant.
There was a new poll out last week. The NBC one that said thee majority of the people of the United States thinks the country is going in the wrong direction.
In times past, that may be a reflection of the economic era, and I believe that it is, with inflation finally starting to edge down but not so the average American feels it.
In times past, that may be a reflection of the president who is the captain of our ship. And that may be but…
What has changed the most in the last year?
Could it be the unrelenting attack on ordinary people’s rights, starting with the misbegotten Dobbs decision? Don’t worry, I will get back to this. I am reading articles from a wide variety of sources and that post isn’t ready yet. But the cheapening of women’s bodies has been very much top of mind for the last year.
What I think may be an answer is the unending attacks on “woke”. Not that anyone can define it. But definitely the ceaseless attacks on the LGBTQ+. States with super majorities are passing anti this or anti that bills left and right and center.
It is no wonder that the average American feels like the rug has been pulled out from under us.
First the initial weak ass response that tried to sweep the pandemic under the rug. Over 1.135 million dead. That leaves a mark on a psyche.
And the feckless wonder that tried to discount it and led his followers to do the same, to their deaths, is running again to be in charge. The unrelenting coverage there cannot be good for us.
There is still a war on in Europe. Because someone thought to take something (land and a country) that didn’t belong to him. Because in the past, it used to belong to the country he has an iron grip on.
The point is there is much to feel badly about. And the President is not a fairy godfather and can’t wave his wand and poof it back to 2015.
Not to be a Pollyanna Puke but look at your blessings. And trust in the process. Even if that process is being pushed back HARD by those who want women in the kitchen, stripped of ALL their rights, who want kids who are trying to tell their truth in the graveyard and out of their sight. Because their policies will kill children, and has.
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