WHY POLLS ARE MEANINGLESS

      Here in the Prozac Nation electoral politics are on about the same plane as events like the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, WWE Monday Night Smackdown, etc. The outcome is determined already, but the spectacle is the important thing. Hollywood has conditioned Americans over the years to believe that life works like a scripted drama; and in a Managed Democracy, like we now have, voting for political candidates is like audience participation in the whole performance. 

     Polls are an integral part of the performance. A poll released today, for example, by that wholly impartial paragon of Academic integrity, the University of Massachusetts, shows that "Fifty-eight percent of the respondents to the UMass-Amherst/WCVB said Biden has fallen short of their expectations, the highest rate in the four times the poll has asked this question. The latest poll also found Biden's overall approval rating to be 39%, which is down from 44% in June's poll." 

    Such numbers have the Controlled Opposition dancing around the story like a bunch of cannibals dancing around a stew-pot. They infer from these numbers that everyone 'dissatisfied by Biden' automatically are going to vote Republican instead. All that the poll actually shows is that voters aren't happy with the Junta's handling of various issues. As for any Red Wave resulting from any of this, consider that the Republicans' approval ratings are 1/3 of what Biden's are. 

    The echo-chambers on the Establishment Right are trumpeting most loudly the numbers on Biden's handling of immigration and the economy---two of their main propaganda points even though the Republicans' solutions to immigration issues are draconian and unrealistic, and their economic program is nonexistent. 

  "According to the poll, Americans are most concerned about the way Biden has handled immigration, with 67% of respondents indicating he has handled the issue 'not too well' or 'not well at all.' At least half of those polled also had negative opinions of how the president has handled inflation, taxes, crime, jobs, climate change, the Israel-Hamas war and the Russia-Ukraine war. There was no issue included in the poll where respondents gave Biden a majority positive review. The poll found that 36% would describe the nation's economy as 'fair,' and 35% would describe it as 'poor.' Some of the most common words used to explain those ratings were 'inflation' and 'high prices.'"

   The problem here is that there's no further explanation as to the roots of these dissatisfaction. Unlike many postmodern Conservatives, I actually know a few Democrat voters and even talk to them. Recently, I had occasion to talk to a few about contemporary politics. Though unhappy with Biden, here's how they described things:

   NW: So, you don't like how Biden is handling Immigration. Why not?

   Democrat: Look at the way he keeps caving to Republicans and letting those psychopath governors get away with defying federal law and dumping people on already overwhelmed communities---without even providing help for them. 

   NW: What about Biden's handling of the economy? 

   Democrat: Same thing. Biden has sold out unions and the working man and given free rein to Republican Corporate cronies to run wild. He hasn't stood up to these scumbags on any issue.

    So, do we still want to pretend that Democrat voters are going to switch parties in droves and vote Republican this November? A dead giveaway to how Democrats actually see things ought to have been apparent when they listed Climate Change as one of the issues that they feel Biden isn't handling well. As for the other issues listed, the Republican position is no different than Biden's: in fact, often more extreme, such as dealing with Gaza and Ukraine. 

   It was also noteworthy that social issues didn't appear on the poll, and these are issues that the Controlled Opposition's pundits also discreetly sweep under the rug. Despite doing absolutely nothing on Right to Life issues for nearly 50 years, the Republicans reacted to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by conceding to the Left. They cynically say that Abortion is a State's Rights issue: i.e., that they're fine with it as long as it only happens in Blue States and doesn't cut into the profit-margins of their clients in Big Pharma who traffic in fetal tissues and organ harvesting. Even pro-Abortion proponents see through this hypocrisy and it doesn't win any support from anybody. 

    The best thing that we can do is ignore these electoral polls and all the media hoopla and fake 'experts' analyses around them. Ultimately, they mean nothing at all, and divert attention and sow division so that the activities of the Corporate Deep State go on unnoticed and unchallenged.