Political pundits everywhere are struggling to understand how it’s possible that Biden, given his administration’s admirable performance across a wide range of metrics, has such a lackluster approval rating.
The answer seems to be that facts don’t matter, or put in other words, people have an insatiable appetite for information that supports the ideas that they so desperately want to believe to be true.
We have entire “news” networks that feed off these people; there is an entire industry built around providing people support for beliefs that have no real basis in reality.
How bad is the crisis at the U.S. border? How strong is the economy? Is there any merit to scientists’ concern about climate change? How should Americans be lining up around support for Ukraine? It all depends on what you already believe.
Physician Democrat Amy Acton’s run for governor in Ohio appears to be well-timed. The state’s economy is sputtering and, though the state normally votes bright red, there is considerable concern that the Republican party is run by a lunatic whose economic policies have hurt Ohioans badly.
When did the United States abandon intelligence and civility, and start acting like a nation of stupid assholes?
Should we be concerned for our personal safety now that violent, hateful ICE agents may be given immunity from prosecution for murder?
It’s hard to conceive of anything more unAmerican than what’s happening here.
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