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I mean, yeah Biden hasn't been great at campaigning this time. He's been significantly better at the actual job, and we don't only elect the person. We elect their cabinet effectively as well and Biden surrounds himself with much more competent staff than Trump who has several staffers up for felonies, nevermind himself.
Am I worried? Just about you assholes who keep forgetting that the president doesn't do everything themselves.
Loads of felonies being led by a convicted felon who has said he would commit more crimes the second in office... vs one guy in the group being "old" despite only being a few years older than his opponent.
I get it, Biden is old. I don't get how that one fact counters every other one from the other side.
Umm no one here is being swayed by Biden being old to vote for Trump. I'm worried about those gullible people put there who will fall for it, who have been falling for this same thing since Reagan. There are so many out there that are too illiterate to sit through a debate and depend on short clips (foolishly) to get the vibe, and Biden tripped up and handed over a lot of fodder for dishonest people to use to generate disingenuous footage. We have been sold the idea that you need a strong personality (or at least a strong face) to operate on a state level and have been since... idk Roosevelt is the first personality I can think of where that was played up in school.
You don't seem to understand that most of America doesn't run on reasoning for decision-making, but fear, and the right is a master of wielding that very effectively.
I do understand that those strategies have some effect. I disagree that it means reason is moot, and the more shits that come out of the woodwork with doomerism the more effective it is so I have a question for you. Why are you pushing that narrative as well? What are you doing to change it other than point it out?
Half the country runs believing in Fox News, and our literacy is below the sixth grade level, well before reasoning is introduced to the curriculum. I consider myself a fairly logical person, and I see the idea of operating on reason-first (I phrase like this for clarity, as emotional-based choice is valid after processing after reasoning is established) virtually never followed, even when claimed. I have lost multiple jobs because of this exact problem. I am an advocate of it in all situations.
Outside of my bubble, I have watched universities purge philosophy, and all philosophy courses, from their systems. There's a shift in the definition of True, with the "post-truth" movement. You can see how much reason influences the public with how they prosecute minorities, where bigotry is believed over decades of statistics.
Reasoning is non-existent here. Moot, no, reasoning is not of no practical importance, but it cannot be depended on here at this point.