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Top Biden administration officials were spooked by criticism from Republicans in Congress and some pro-Israel Democratic party donors.
Of course, exactly the people they should be most sensitive to.
It's been a long term issue that politicians have been out of step with their constituents over Israel/Palestine.
You know what’s weird that I just realized?
We constantly see news stories about polls of how people feel about the economy. It’s constantly of newsworthy interest.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single one about how they feel about the war in Israel. I just went looking, and found Gallup, Gallup, Pew Research (I.e. primary sources with no one writing stories about them), and then down below the info box there was an article from thehill.com saying the vast majority of Americans back Israel over Hamas.
(The Gallup poll said the war has a 36% approval rating. I suspect thehill.com used the exact “do you support Israel? Or Hamas?” framing that it sounds like they used)
There's a reason for the saying "it's the economy stupid".
Yeah, but no one’s having any massive demonstrations demanding a better economy, disrupting college graduations, shutting down the highway, it’s not like this huge national conversation like hey wtf is going on we demand that you do this differently
(Which, I mean, it should be, but that’s a separate issue)
I just think that it’s interesting that the economic polls serve a narrative, so the polls get reported. The actual economic numbers don’t really serve that narrative, and so up until pretty recently it was only the really highbrow sites that would even mention, how weird is this disconnect between how people see it and how it is. I think the Israel polls would also not serve the narrative (reporting that yes, a pretty large majority of the country is disgusted with Israel’s “war” and our support for it), and so it’s just this big void.
(It would also interfere with the “crazy protestors having their wacky ideas” narrative if they reported that most people agree with them)
Silent majority (economy) vs squeaky wheel (Israel).
CNN had a bunch of stats today asking people what their #1 issue is, "The economy" was #1, "Inflation" #2 and Abortion a distant #3.
If only the news would take some time to explain to them what’s going on with the economy and who is stealing their money, the same way they do when immigrants or students are the ones causing a problem
You know how you never see an article about local corrupt car dealerships in your local paper? You know all the pages of ads for car dealers?
Same shit writ large.
Zeteo and data for progress just recently did polling on this. But you're right. Corporate media just manufactures consent for the horrors committed by the west.
https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-israel-genocide-poll-ceasefire-us-voters
There is also no news of the extreme statements col E Nell has made at the end of SALT 2024.
I was partly assuming that to be a psiop to distract from the war. Now i dont know what to think but absolutely radio silence is so strange. What happening at our Media?
Man, are you getting paid to spam these articles all day?
Of course, they are obviously a russian chinese iranian antisemitic putin bot
Centrists are angry that no one's buying that Biden's totally working behind the scenes to do the opposite of what he's doing in public.
He can want in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up first