Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch with voters' priorities
By: MSN
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Inflation is at its highest level in decades. Store shelves are empty. The southern border is in chaos. Hundreds of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan. China just tested a hypersonic missile. Employers can't find workers to keep their businesses running. No wonder more than 60% say the country is going in the wrong direction.
© Susan Walsh/AP President Joe Biden participates virtually in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. It is the first time the United States has participated in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations since 2017, when President Donald Trump participated in the summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
But don't worry: President Joe Biden has a "National Gender Strategy" that will turn everything around.
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The document, released last Friday, is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Identifying "gender equity" as a "moral and strategic imperative," the strategy promises an "intersectional approach" that acknowledges "compounding forms of discrimination" including gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status. This "first ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality" will provide an "aspirational vision" and a "comprehensive agenda" to advance gender equity.
The agenda in the document is, at heart, the same tired laundry list of new government programs that progressives have been trying to force on the nation for decades using other specious justifications.
Nowhere does the "strategy" address inflation or the border crisis. The only time COVID-19 is even mentioned is when the document asserts that no one has suffered more from the pandemic than "women and girls of color." And that's not even true — the data indicate that men are more likely to die from COVID.
Meanwhile, CBS has a new poll out showing that only 37% of people believe Biden is focusing on the issues they care about. What a huge surprise. Majorities of voters believe Biden hasn't focused enough on inflation (60%), the U.S.-Mexico border (57%), and jobs (53%). Somehow, Biden's gender equity strategy isn't assuaging their concerns.
Biden's numbers are even worse among independents. Democratic pollster Joel Benenson and Republican pollster Neil Newhouse recently teamed up to survey more than 2,600 likely voters. They found that 70% of independent voters believed the country was headed in the wrong direction and that independents identified "inflation," "immigration and border security," and "COVID pandemic recovery" as their top three concerns.
Even worse, as Biden pushes to spend another $3.5 trillion on a motley collection of new spending programs, 71% of independents interviewed by Benenson and Newhouse agreed with this statement: "People will continue to pay more money on everyday expenses unless the government becomes more fiscally responsible."
Biden isn't president because Democrats turned out in record numbers to vote against former President Donald Trump. Biden is president because the quarter of the electorate that identifies as independent chose him over Trump 54% to 41%. In 2016, Trump had won independents 46% to 42%.
Biden has completely ignored independent voters from day one of his administration, taking far-left positions on everything from immigration to energy. The independent voters have noticed, and they aren't happy.
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Sad thing is, he doesn't even know it. He is a cognitive mess.
Biden was out of touch long before he ever got elected.
I don’t think that he even cares…
One could say it's a huge piece, the more vocal piece, of the Democrat party. They talk about how they have a mandate for what they are doing when in reality it was much closer to a 50/50 split.
TBH the Republicans are no better. They will also stand around talking about how they have the mandate of the people when they are in power. It must be more of a Washington thing, once you cross the Potomac you tend to no longer see the rest of the country as people but as numbers of voters who back you vs those losers who won't vote for you.
I’ll tell you one thing: Ain’t nobody getting reelected with gasoline pushing $5 a gallon.
He’s the strongest challenge yet to Carter’s performance.
I intensely disliked Carter, but he was still a better president than Biden.
At least Carter really did love his country. Let’s go Brandon has nothing but contempt for us.
Speak for yourself.
Sounds like he did.
You noticed that i did in fact state my opinion as my own. Thanks!
Jefferson has every intent of going from Californication to statehood.
According to another article posted here, this shit is all part of the plan...that is working quite well and in step with Bidenomics.