I applaud you for recounting some of the posittive developments re economics and the environment.
However, there is a sorry truth which, to a large extent, supersedes objective information:
The mood of the voters often overrides objective reality, and the voters are often apt to be deluded by a damnable demogogue -- such as the Donald.
Although there are many indicia of good tidings, the Donald is ridinjg high on the impression that America is on the verge of Armageddon. Not too long ago, polls showed the Donald was on average, 4 points ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. Biden's favorablity rating is about 36 percent, almost 10 points beneath the Donald's favorabiity rating in 2020 as the pandemic roared.
We have seen this bad movie before. In the late 60's and 70's, many voters shifted toward the right because they believed that liberal states and liberal policies -- such as new York, California and New Jersey -- had made urban America a crime infested jungle and that the Deep South was a haven of law and order and Christian propriety. IN FACT, crime was higher Down South than in the supposed Sodoms and Gemorah's of America's North. However a steady drum beat of jokes on Johnny Carson about New York and criminality, black exploitation filmes like "Superfly " and unchallenged and untested asserrtions regarding urban decadence, decay and degradation convinced Americans that the North Eastern Cities of America were a Hades of murder and robbery.
I applaud you for recounting some of the posittive developments re economics and the environment.
However, there is a sorry truth which, to a large extent, supersedes objective information:
The mood of the voters often overrides objective reality, and the voters are often apt to be deluded by a damnable demogogue -- such as the Donald.
Although there are many indicia of good tidings, the Donald is ridinjg high on the impression that America is on the verge of Armageddon. Not too long ago, polls showed the Donald was on average, 4 points ahead in 5 of 6 swing states. Biden's favorablity rating is about 36 percent, almost 10 points beneath the Donald's favorabiity rating in 2020 as the pandemic roared.
We have seen this bad movie before. In the late 60's and 70's, many voters shifted toward the right because they believed that liberal states and liberal policies -- such as new York, California and New Jersey -- had made urban America a crime infested jungle and that the Deep South was a haven of law and order and Christian propriety. IN FACT, crime was higher Down South than in the supposed Sodoms and Gemorah's of America's North. However a steady drum beat of jokes on Johnny Carson about New York and criminality, black exploitation filmes like "Superfly " and unchallenged and untested asserrtions regarding urban decadence, decay and degradation convinced Americans that the North Eastern Cities of America were a Hades of murder and robbery.