Why Can't Joe Biden Go Viral Among Youth?
It's a mystery
I think the New York Times is just putting me on now with stories like this (the “lead story” of today):
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Joe Biden Wants to Go Viral. It’s Not Easy.
I can’t imagine why a faltering president in his early 80s who is on record in 2018 as saying he has little sympathy or empathy for youth today (“Give me a break,” Biden said, when asked about complaints and concerns of young people) is not going viral on social media feeds. What a mystery! Could it be election interference by Russia? Or perhaps control of TikTok videos by China?
Many youth today are energized against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, whereas Biden has given unqualified support (and tons of murderous weaponry) to Israel. Might that be a problem here?
Biden has enacted modest measures to reduce student debt but hasn’t carried through on his biggest campaign promises. Nor has Biden raised the federal minimum wage. Those particular issues hit the youth of America hard.
Youthful influencers are also concerned about the planet, and under Joe Biden fossil fuel production has soared in America. Again, this could be a problem here.
More than anything, Joe Biden is a rapidly aging apparatchik of a corporate system of exploitation in which America’s youth are reduced in the main to unpaid interns, low-paid “gig” employees, indebted students, and (like the rest of us) reflexive consumers. It’s a hard reality—and it’s not one to inspire viral moments of joy on social media for Joe Biden.
The Blue Team "news" dominates the US media landscape (hellscape) and the Biden admin. counts on them to manage the narratives about Biden and Trump. The problem now is that it really only works on well-off PMC Blue Team voters, and has no effect, or even a negative effect, on students, workers and other groups that don't take home big salaries. But the Biden admin. expects the Blue Team news to have their back and assumes they can still pull it off. It isn't going to work, just like all other Biden policies are doomed to fail. This is the most incompetent administration of my lifetime, and I keep wondering how much Hillary is pulling string in the background. All of the policies seem exactly what we would expect if she had been elected. Blinken and Sullivan have long backgrounds with Hillary when she was SS.
The Democrats continue to believe it's all about the messaging rather than new ideas and substance. Recall all the efforts to 'reintroduce" the despicable Clinton to the voters in 2016; the only substance being the reality of an elitist neocon who thought it was her turn.
The same effort appears underway here. Rather than chart a new way forward as a leader in an emerging multipolar world that could excite young people, his personal limitations aside - there's nothing he offers, except more of the same dire economic conditions and threats of more wars.