I live in a city in the outskirts of the Philly suburbs and I can tell you that if anyone here has any enthusiasm for Joe Biden at all,it isn’t showing. This city is mostly Latino and the Democrats are failing somewhat miserably in engaging them at all.
No one I know of is voting FOR Biden. If they vote at all it is AGAINST Trump. This seems like a strategy we have seen before by the Democrats. They are very anti-populist and are running on a strategy of conveying competence vs. chaos. That’s great. But will it be enough to motivate people to vote?
Biden isn’t the kind of person to get excited about — and that’s not just in terms of his policies. A lot of that has to do with his own lackluster personality. Watching him on TV makes me think he wishes he had never gotten into this.
We humans are, in many ways, far less complicated than we like to believe, and far more prone to being manipulated. Or flat out sold. All kinds of studies show this. Even supposedly sophisticated wine connoisseurs will choose a glass of wine labelled $91 over the one labelled $10, even though they both came from the same bottle.
Manufactured realities, fictions, symbols, and signs. Who does better with the creation and sales of these false-fields. That’s key. The Dems have never been good at sales, and they keep choosing bad salespersons to top their tickets.
They’ve cleared the field the last two times for the least effective salesperson, instead of letting the guy with the best agenda (Sanders) head the ticket, etc. etc.
IMO, a clear majority of Americans will vote against Trump, not necessarily for Biden, if they’re able to. If Trump and his fellow right-wing goons let them vote.
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