(09-24-2021, 10:11 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: It's not going to get any better or any easier for Gumby and the fascist leaning Democrats and Republicans from here on. It's only going to get worse and more dangerous for them and for you and the other partisan clowns too.
As a pattern I generally do not predict day-to-day movements in polling numbers except as results of obvious events. We have yet to see the criminal trials of participants in the Michigan plot (those trials begin next month, thank you) and the worst offenders in the Capitol Putsch. Legal realities strike hard and fast -- and legal processes are of course capricious. So is public opinion.
Polling usually reflects public opinion and especially its focus at the time. When I think of 'fascist' Democrats I think of the segregationist pols and terrorists (KKK) of the past. When I think of 'fascist' Republicans -- the first person to come to my mind is Donald Judas Iscariot Trump. Americans can forget Afghanistan fast, much as it did not fall for stab-in-the-back rhetoric about the fall of our client state in Vietnam.
You are wise enough to recognize fascism as a snarl word in the same sense as madness, rape, and murder. I question whether you know what fascism really means. I prefer to be precise in the use of language unless I am trying to be cute as in metaphor, hyperbole, simile, or Freudian slip. "The burglar broke into the house and met the German leopard.. excuse me, German shepherd"... or referring to the late Rush Limbaugh as "Rash Libel".
Your talent for predicting the future makes the astrology column of the National Enquirer look far more reliable.
Yes, it is true: this map suggests that just about any Republican nominee for President will defeat Joe Biden or any possible successor in 2024. Assuming that nothing will change by 2024 is itself folly. I have suggested three sure changes by 2024. Some others that I do not foresee could also ensure that a Republican wins in 2024 -- if timed appropriately for such. One new poll can repudiate any preceding poll. 29 states have been polled in nine months, and I expect that pace to pick up.
Nothing is permanent save change!
At least I show unflattering polls for President Biden even if I have reason to see those as temporary.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.