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Silent3

(15,018 posts)
5. Yes (and inflation), but if the people weren't idiots...
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 12:12 PM
Jan 2022

...they'd blame Trump for having politicized COVID, not Biden for doing a very good job of protecting all of the people who aren't raving anti-vax idiots, and for pushing through the stimulus that got the economy going after a huge slump.

What bothers me is the entire idea that we totally have to expect people to have shallow, surface-level reactions to everything. Things are bad now -> blame whoever is President now. Our news media and the pundits seldom blame the voters for being this shallow and stupid, they blame politicians for not somehow working around this stupidity.

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