Summary

President Joe Bidenā€™s economic achievementsā€”lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturingā€”are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Bidenā€™s approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a ā€œpropaganda problemā€ rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Bidenā€™s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

  • VoterFrog@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Social media is where most of the blatantly false propaganda lives. Getting all of your news from it makes you more susceptible to propaganda, not less. These are people who have nothing to form an opinion with except for what the loudest people around them are complaining about most. And propagandists are the loudest ones, complaining about made up bullshit.

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      12 days ago

      Yes, I understand that. But on social media you arenā€™t necessarily getting right-wing propaganda, as thereā€™s plenty of left-wing propaganda and misinformation as well. Thatā€™s why Iā€™m saying that theyā€™re low- or no-information voters that are working solely on feels.

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        12 days ago

        Is there, though? I was trying to come up with some examples yesterday and all I can find from my admittedly lefty algo are fears propagated because of Trumpā€™s words or incoming cabinet appointments. They are at least based on actual recorded words as opposed to cherry-picked data or ā€œfeelsā€. I guess the left could be cherry-picking data to support their arguments also, but the logic seems more sound, at least to me.

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          12 days ago

          It is, yeah. When you look at accounts like Occupy Democrats and start fact checking them, thereā€™s a lot of bullshit that they post. Like, pants on fire kind of bullshit. I knew a lot of people that followed them. In order to get engagement, accounts need to stir up emotions and get people to react and comment; itā€™s easier to do that with things that outrage rather than dense policy positions.

          I want to believe that the political left is more intellectually honest than the right, but thatā€™s because Iā€™m mostly on the political left. (Iā€™m an anarchist at heart, but with a cynical disbelief in the ability of people to work together in a country the size of the US without some degree of authoritarian control.) So I try to fact-check all of the sources that I use for both factual information, as well as ideological biases.