Polls are notoriously wrong….take the elections of 2016 and 2020….wrong.
This poll taken shows that those cowards that cower to Trump and basically supported the insurrection of 06 January may have a tough time in the mid-terms….
https://secondnexus.com/new-republic-eichenthal-poll-certification
We Americans can only hope that for once a poll may be accurate…..but then it is a poll and they have been useless in the past as a predictor.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
A cutesy name for political hatred.
The “Syndrome” is the lies spread among the GOP voters these days.
The push for voter suppression, the distrust of vaccines and downplaying the insurrection of 06 January…..
A good look at this ‘sickness’ in an op-ed…..
A recent op-ed piece published by The Washington Post highlights the problem of Snowflake Syndrome among voters who cast ballots for former President Donald Trump. The author, Greg Sargent, notes that the current Republican agenda centers on the following: restricting voting rights, sowing doubt about the COVID-19 vaccine, and downplaying the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The problem is that there is no justification or substantial evidence to support any of their arguments regarding these initiatives. In fact, all are connected to false narratives and misinformation that has been, in some way, influenced by Trump. For example, the nationwide push for voting rights restrictions is supposedly an incentive to increase voters’ confidence in the integrity of the United States’ voting systems. But Sargent pushed back against that argument describing it as “bad-faith nonsense.”
“Broadly speaking,” Sargent wrote, “this “confidence” storyline is bad-faith nonsense: It’s being widely abused to keep alive the myth of the stolen election and to justify an unprecedented wave of efforts to disenfranchise the opposition’s voters. It is not designed to build confidence in our elections, but to further undermine it, for illicit purposes.”
https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/trump-voters/
But how can this be?
Lonely people looking for a sense of belonging….
In his column for the Daily Beast, conservative commentator Matt Lewis made a case that Donald Trump’s rise was the inevitable result of a country that has become filled with lonely people who have lost any connection to their community and just want to feel like they belong.
As the conservative columnist notes that, at the heart of “Trumpism,” is an appeal to those suffering from social isolation which, in turn, makes them susceptible to appeals such as “Make America Great Again” as promised by the former president.
Explaining, “lack of communal ties may be killing us at the micro level, on the macro level this phenomenon has contributed to numerous societal ills, including the rise of Trumpism,” Lewis added that the new book by the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender (“Frankly, We Did Win This Election”) makes clear Trump’s early appeal.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cult-2653974187/
I have read reports that the hatred is waning….I do not believe these at this time.
Any thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
This is a piece I wrote for my op-ed blog….I want to keep the insurrection, the failed coup, of 06 January, in the minds of my readers….this is something that should NEVER be forgotten like so much of our history. chuq
First I would like to think the mindless horde for the insurrection of 06 January because it gave me the chance to use an under used diploma in Political History…..where I look at the history of this country the founding and the years forward onto the present.
Since the very beginning the fires of insurrection have been with us….first it was a slow simmer while the country came together politically but not physically and the flame of dissension was turned up to a boil that lead to the American Civil War….after the insurrectionists were beaten down the flame returned to a simmer….the reason for the insurrection was never extinguished and the simmer continued while the country slowly returned to some sort of political unity.
In the 20th century the flames were once again raised and this time by Reagan…..his demonization of the poor with his tagline of ‘welfare queens’ started…
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