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If America’s Headed In Wrong Direction, Biden Is the One Trying To Right The Ship
According to recent polling, 68 percent of Americans believe the country has “pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.”
Tune into your major news outlet, and chances are the political “reporting” will weave a narrative, rooted in historical political “analysis,” that such polling figures are rather foreboding for Biden’s presidency and certainly for Democrats’ prospects in this year’s mid-term elections.
This media-driven narrative, though, isn’t news and isn’t reporting. It’s a prediction that threatens to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even worse, this narrative itself forwards, and is founded on, a bedrock of gross misinformation.
The dominant misinformation pervading what is becoming a dangerously bedrock narrative is that Biden is the cause and not the cure for the ills and angst Americans perceive as plaguing their lives.
Here’s a chief and illuminating example of what I’m talking about.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s mandate, a workplace rule issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), requiring companies with 100 or more employees to ensure their employees are vaccinated, wear masks, or test negative on a weekly basis.
