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You believe trumps administration adversely affected those people, but those on the right don't. The only thing we have to go on is what our media tells us. Who is right? There are arguments on both sides. You choose to believe left wing spin, the other side chooses to believe right wing spin. Hence the part I put in there about media propaganda that infects everyone.Actually not.You know, all of this is funny. I mean, at this point, its almost comical. To see how everything shifts when power changes hands.
When Obama was in office, the right were all up in arms, then trump took over, then the left were all up in arms, now biden is taking over, and the right is all up in arms again.
The truly funny thing about it is, in the overall scheme of things, the life of the average person doesn't really change all that much no matter who is in office. I think, for the most part, people aren't really concerned about the policies that the president represents, I think its more of an "us against them", competition. The media spews talking points and propaganda to rile up their base, then those people come here and gripe about it.
Again, aside from a few hundred dollars change each year in a paycheck, most people are not affected by the policies of each administration. Everyone though Obama was going to take guns and lead us into socialism, yet, we still have the 2A and were not socialist. Everyone thought trump was going to ban abortion but we still have abortion.
It just makes me wonder, why do we fight?
Unless, of course, you don’t consider gay and transgender Americans to be ‘average,’ or Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and First Americans to likewise not be ‘average.’
Indeed, women of child-bearing age must not be ‘average.’
And clearly the millions of Americans adversely impacted by the pandemic – more than a quarter of a million who have died – are not ‘average’ Americans.
The fact is that whomever occupies the WH does have an effect on average Americans, with court appointments, legislation signed into law, vetoed, or otherwise opposed – and in the case of the pandemic, a crisis the executive branch was solely responsible to address, a responsibility the current president failed to manage.