A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say Trump has been a “terrible” leader in his second term.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 think he has done an average job in his presidency and 3 in 10 says he’s been a great or good president.
44% say Trump’s focused on the wrong priorities in the AP-NORC poll, 21% said an even mix and 10% don’t know
Political tribalism is so crazy in this country. It’s like Republicans and Democrats live in two different countries. I suppose in some ways they do.
The divide is actually between “people who got an education that included critical thinking skills” and people who didn’t.
Ideologically speaking, dozens of studies and surveys have shown that Americans are actually not very ideologically separate - it’s just that the group that can’t critically think is routinely and easily manipulated into voting AGAINST their own ideology through fear.
You forgot to add that the people who are steering that narrative are literally billionaires and millionaires who are actively publishing propaganda to brainwash the masses.
And it isn’t just undereducated people who fall for it. This is an effort that has been going on for 50 years. The conservative ideological points have been worked into ads, schools, and main stream television. Touting American exceptionalism while downplaying the socialist programs that have ushered in the golden era of America’s general populace prosperity. Medicare, Medicaid, social security, welfare, and even agricultural subsidies are all social programs enacted with the intent to bolster a strong populace. These downplaying and demonizing efforts are being paid for in full by multimillion dollar corporate conglomerates run by millionaires and billionaires. Conservative voters in both well educated places and undereducated places have been thoroughly convinced that these programs are horrible and are “stealing money from their pockets to give to dirty immigrants and poor people who don’t want to work.” Reagan, over 40 years ago, coined the term “welfare queen” which is the single dumbest term in the history of the world. No one living on welfare is living “like a queen”. And yet the term still gets airtime and ink in not only conservative rags but moderately liberal spaces as well.
Maybe Americans are generally ideologically homogeneous, but there’s enough variability within that shared ideology for there to be significant disagreements between the various ideological subgroups. Even if Americans broadly agree on the matter of individual rights, liberties, and freedoms, they may not necessarily agree on which rights should be prioritized or for whom.
But maybe the problem is in the shared ideology itself. A country that is adamant that people should have the right to be ignorant and misinformed, shouldn’t be surprised when large numbers of people are ignorant and misinformed.
We do, one side believes in freedom, equality, empathy and truth. The other side are shit flinging monkeys at this point.
What’s sad is like half of the country is basically still asleep at the wheel and just voting for whatever party they’ve been voting for and are more informed about celebrities than the constitutional crisis occurring.