HALF OF DEMOCRATS BELIEVE THIS SHIT??!!

It’s bad enough when the Dumb Fucking Morons are the majority of the opposition party.

It’s FUCKING TERRIBLE when the dumbfucks claim they’re members of the same political party you’re registered to vote in.

Over the past year, it’s gotten boring calling out stupid polls run by idiots out to create clickbait for whatever failing media organization plans to monetize the results of the poll and make enough “profit” that the intergalactic widget maker that owns them can sell them to the first rube who comes around the corner. There have also been plenty of “outlier” polls to get upset with, commissioned by entitled trust fund heirs like A.G. Sulzberger, who’s offended President Biden won’t give him an exclusive interview.

It’s really bad when the poll - no matter how suspect its owner may be - comports with the results of other polls.

There’s a new Harris Poll that has been published this week in The Guardian - not usually the source of idiot clickbait - that’s a record-setter for an “Oh Fuck!” response. No Labels co-founder Mark Penn has become notorious for his push polls making things difficult for President Biden. But this time, the results aren’t an outlier when compared with other polls asking similar questions to try and make sense of this “Vibe-cession” in which people say that everything’s fine economically in their life and with those they know, but they’re certain that the national economy is heading for the proverbial cliff.

This poll’s result shows 56 percent of Americans believe the nation is currently in a recession - despite the actual facts showing the country hasn’t had such a good economic situation in 60 years. According to the poll, 49 percent of our “fellow Americans” believe the stock market is down - when it hit and stayed at 30,000 last week, a new record high. Not only this, but 49 percent of the idiots who live next door to any of us believe unemployment is at a 50-year high, regardless of the fact that for the past seven quarters, the Federal Jobs Report shows that unemployment has been lower than it’s been since the Sixties.

What’s really enough to make you run for the rest room to pay obeisance to the porcelain god in the first stall is that 49 percent of DEMOCRATS believe the country is in a recession! So do 53 percent of independents and 67 percent of Republicans. Even higher percentages of DEMOCRATS believe inflation is increasing.

And these results are only a couple points different from three other polls! One poll’s results could be somebody’s opinion; two could be a coincidence. But FOUR????

I’ve been known to call the party I am a registered member of the Dimocrats and the Dumbocraps, but - Jeezus Fucking Christ, people!! - this is Confederacy of Dunces territory! How did nearly half the party become Drooling Fucking MORONS??????!!!

How are we to accomplish anything when half the people who claim to be on our side have obviously decided that Up Is Down, In is Out, and Day Is Night?

Yes, it’s true, millions of our fellow Americans are having trouble paying for necessities like rent and food - if I wasn’t the successful writer I am, I could be in the same place. Financial insecurity is a condition of life that is now widespread in the New Gilded Age United States.

But how have so many Americans who live in what I usually think of as the deep end of the DNA pool come to believe this crazy-ass shit about the current national economy, when at the same time there are strong majorities of them who say their lives and the conditions in their community are just fine??? We used to think that economic reports of 6% unemployment and 3% inflation - situations far worse than what we are actually experiencing now - were Good Times.

Yes, the problem of affordability for many basics is real. I don’t buy things I used to; Nestle’s Hazelnut coffee creamer that used to be $4.50 not that long ago has now hit $9 for the gallon bottle (when you drink coffee in industrial doses like I do, you notice that) and so now I buy Lucerne’s version, for $5, and that’s not the only dietary change I’ve made. The affordability problem is real enough to have a negative impact on a significant part of the Democratic base - particularly minorities, single women, single old guys like me, and young people. But I - and all of you - have experienced more adverse economic conditions on several occasions in our lifetimes, and that didn’t lead to our making dire economic assessments that are completely at odds with the Actual Situation.

I think that a primary explanation of how we get the “vibe” in vibe-cession is the fact that a majority of the country - including Democrats - no longer get their news from sources that deal in Actual Facts. When you get your news from things that pop up on your Facebook page, the fact you think Up Is Down, In Is Out, Left Is Right and Day is Night is not that surprising. Social Media has a natural, built-in bias for negative, apocalyptic, unedited, uncurated bullshit. It’s the place where anybody can say anything, and does - which is the very definition of bullshit: the liar knows the truth and chooses not to tell it, while the bullshitter doesn’t care if it’s true or not. Name the topic and Social Media is a magnet for the expression of discontent - real and imagined. Traditional fact-based media has dwindled in the lives of most Americans. The fact that most of Social Media is now owned by Known Bad Actors like Elmo Muck, who can and does switch the algorithm at Xitter (that’s pronounced “Shitter”) to promote his Unreconstructed Afrikaner white supremacist and pro-fascist politics, means that a significant chunk of what passes for “news” is imaginary. Muck and the rest of the Silly Con Valley Fascist-Curious Incel Bros are no friends to Joe Biden.

But the unfortunate fact is that Democratic shortcomings as political communicators are also a real problem. This poll clearly demonstrates the Biden Campaign ought to fire the people who’ve spent the past 30 years bringing a nice cheese plate to a gunfight, and hire Rick Wilson, who at least has a quick-enough draw to be competitive in that gunfight.

Speaking of Rick, he posted this quote from Goethe at his Substack today. It really is appropriate to our time: “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

Hopefully, Biden’s June 27th debate with Trump will compel the American public to rethink their view of the president and his policies, in comparison with Trump and his constant lies and bullshit. If so, perhaps people may start paying attention to the Actual Facts, rather than the bullshit promoted by the gangsters who want to destroy the republic, that the ignoramuses believe must be true because it’s in their Xitter feed.

If not, then it really will be true that the only thing really exceptional about this country is the exceptional moron stupidity of the average American.

There are days when it feels like we are called on to herd a swarm of bees through a blizzard with a switch, to quote an old “southernism.”

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