I recall hearing a story about a ‘high-wire’ walker back in the early 1900’s, who held an exhibition over a narrow section of Niagara Falls. After asking the large gathering of folks if they believed that he could survive the distance, they all roared “YAY!”, to cheer him on. The man made a couple of passes across the perilous gap - with ridiculous ease - to the amazement of the enthusiastic audience. He then, amazingly, made another pass, back & forth, pushing a wheelbarrow containing a relatively light load. When he reached the starting end of the precipice he asked the crowd: “Do you folks NOW believe that I can cross it again -twice- with a live human being in the wheelbarrow?” Again, the crowd roared in affirmation. “Wonderful, he said. ‘May I now ask for a courageous VOLUNTEER!?”. You could’ve heard a pin drop over those thunderous falls. The crowd, now silent, looked at one another, hoping that some brave man next to them would quickly take up the potentially deadly challenge, so they wouldn’t appear to be cowardly in front of their wives, & children. No hands raised. NO ‘adventurers’ stepped up to the platform.
There IS a modern day parallel here. Lotsa folks SAY that Joe Biden has their unwavering confidence to get them ‘across the gap’. No, I wouldn’t dare insult your intelligence by comparing a bumbling, doddering, old fool (Biden) to a spry, adept, high-wire artist - I’m actually comparing HIM to the wheelbarrow volunteer, who has little to nothing to do with the success of the crossing; - especially when nobody is really willing to push the dadgummed thing across the divide with him in it.
Assuming that Biden retains the candidacy (🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼), he will be losing hordes of potential voters to Donald Trump over the next several weeks, & months. Trump is just now beginning to go on the offensive path, and he is gonna run Biden, the congressional Democrat candidates, and the DNC through a meat-grinder.
There are already so many democrat voters who are moving from occasional discomfort, straight through to downright disgust with the Democrat party. These are the salvageable ones, who once they begin to think for themselves, are shunning the talking heads on the big 3 (CBS, NBC, & ABC) and turning their channels to the Cartoon Network whenever Rachel Maddcow is on. They know that they’ve been lied to -A Lot- by their favorite tv pundits, and they now are sensing that maybe their trust has been ‘misplaced’. These used to be the same folks who enjoyed having their itching ears tickled by the things that they wanted to hear, except that now, what they are seeing every evening from their living room armchairs is not aligning very well with the everyday realities that they know all too well.
The biggest dilemma for folks like these lifelong democrat voters, is that it would almost feel like a personal defeat if they ‘gave up’ on the democrats, and having to admit that they are wrong about almost everything. They can be won over from the ‘dark side’, but they first need to unleash their God given common sense, and begin to engage in the lost art of critical thinking, to make the switch. In most cases, simply poking a few pin holes in their long-held ‘beliefs’, and prompting them to question their own motives is all it takes.
Some are more difficult to reach. These are the types who think that they’re “smarter than the average bear”, but they really ONLY gather the info that they already wish to believe while eschewing everything else, including proven, factual information that conflicts with their own hardened personal views. If it is possible to reach folks like that, it’ll almost take a revelation from God to change their minds. It’s Not that they love Joe Biden - they have NO real confidence in him - it’s that they have been conditioned to hate Donald Trump with an obscene passion by the ‘Fake News’ Anti-Trump media.
Shaneyy Ricch👇🏼seems to have found at least one -NEVER TRUMP-democrat voter who, to her dying day, would be willing to climb into the wheelbarrow WITH Joe Biden walking on the high-wire behind it.
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The FACT remains - that Donald Trump is gaining more momentum every single week. More and more FACTS about him are rising to the surface, & the democrat minded folks are becoming disillusioned with their party’s agenda, and thinking (to themselves) that the idea of “Making America Great Again” maybe wouldn’t be such a terrible thing after all.
I expect that the majority of newly enlightened “D” voters will have ‘silent’ conversions. They will continue to pretend to support the ‘party’ in front of their families & friends, and remain silent in their workplaces. Privately, even if they’ll never admit it, they WILL cast their ballots for Trump, and deny doing so later.
It is getting much, much easier for formerly Trump defiant people to begin to openly support Trump NOW, because so many of their peers are unafraid to voice their support for Trump -in public- and on popular video platforms.
There are a lot of young conservatives, like Shaneyy Ricch who are really out there getting the true ‘pulse’ of the U.S. electorate. Traditional phone polling is just lazy, *leading, and ineffective. Pollsters try to produce the results that their ‘client’ wants to see. (*My own polling experience is described in the bonus section, below the conclusion.)
Shaneyy Ricch: “It’s almost POPULAR to support Trump now”.
“**These people exist, and honestly,..it’s the majority.” (**demographically -unlikely- Trump supporters)
You will see a combination of mentalities in this video, but I think that Shaneyy is right when he says that the majority of his interview-ees are strongly influenced by Trump’s positive MAGA agenda.
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Conclusion: Trump, himself, is the greatest campaigner, and promoter of hope for a broken America. Everybody knows that. People of all sorts are attracted to his optimism, even if some of them vehemently hate the fact that HE is our best (only) chance to put America back on the right path.
Hopefully, they’ll all choose wisely, and learn how to laugh, love, and enjoy life once again.
Thanks for reading. Blessings to you all.
Your pal, dh 🤓
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*Aforementioned Related Story👇🏼
Many years ago, in the midst of the Clinton impeachment hearings (October-December, 1998) I was called by the Gallup polling agency, who were at the top of the heap of the polling industry in those days. The first dozen questions were pretty straight forward, and I was fairly comfortable with the process -until- one of the final questions was asked.
The operator asked me (verbatim) “Do you think that William Jefferson Clinton has been a good president - & should he be impeached?”
I replied: “No, to the first part,..& Yes to the second part”. He then asked: “So,..Is that a Yes?…or a No?”
Try as I might to argue my point that I was trying to answer TWO separate questions with one simple “Yes” or “NO”, The operator insisted that I could only give him a “YES” or a “No” for a response. That was when I realized the clever ol’ switcharoo ‘trick’. Game Over. I declined to answer, and I ended the call. It was clearly a ‘freebie’ for Gallup to later apply my “Yes” or “No” to whichever section best suited their purposes.
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Trump 2024!!
So true about polls!!! I had a similar experience when I purchased a new car 12 years ago with a survey. The car manufacturer sent me surveys asking me questions about how I liked the vehicle. It was only about 4-5 questions but the very last question was always something like "Would you purchase this vehicle/model again?" After about a year I started to realize that I liked my car but I would likely not buy that vehicle again so I answered accordingly when I received the next survey. I never received another survey again. It was then I realized they had been manipulating the results by saying "those surveyed would purchase that vehicle again".