Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

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(01-22-2022, 08:48 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-21-2022, 06:44 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Biden is down in approval ratings by over 10 points. It's been like this for several months now. It looks hopeless right now. I really thought the Millennials would turn the country around. Now it looks like they have been absorbed into Classic Xer's "America". I guess my prediction is not going to turn out. What I expect now is just more and more-severe disaster, with no further basis for any recovery in any future turning. America has been right-wing now for over 40 years. It might as well be Russia or China by now.

I don't think the Millennials have moved to the right; they've moved to the corner.  When did they vote in earnest?  They liked BHO, and some came out to oppose Trump.  But as a rule, they feel screwed and neglected by the older gens, and they're right.  They see the two parties as Tweedledum and Tweedledee.  This is the problem the Democrats can't see.  By trying to add to their base from the middle, they lose any chance at adding the masses waiting for someone to lead them.

 
President Biden is not exciting. People voted for him in part because they came to despise or dread Trump. American politics does not yet fit millennial norms. When it does it is over for any pol who cannot adjust to the Millennial reality. I expect the last remaining Silent and the first wave of Boomers to vacate the political scene fairly soon. One birth year that now encompasses twenty years of the Presidency (1946) with on the whole mediocre-to-dreadful Presidents has gone from freakishly young for the Presidency to freakishly old. 

Obama is an oddity for a Reactive type in combining Civic and Idealist traits as do the Silent while being a mature Reactive (which is definitely not Silent), and if we have someone else somewhat like him he will not get in the way of the rise of the Millennial generation.