Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Popularity

Although there has been a recent reversal in some of the polls of President Trump's job approval polling (i.e., moving more negative), some people are puzzled that his approval rating has not been worse.

Well, I have lived most of my adult life with a good portion (maybe a majority) of the American people being wrong, so it doesn't really surprise me.
  • The Vietnam War was very popular--until it wasn't.
  • Bush II's Iraq War was popular--until it wasn't.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. was very unpopular--until he was (well, at least a little more).
  • Rights for homosexuals were very unpopular--until they became at least less so.
Okay okay, so this is way oversimplified.  But at the same time, all you can do is keep fighting and organizing and protesting and telling the truth.  It can't hurt.



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