I think it's really important to remember how much time FDR put into managing public perception and building narratives. Overseeing significant economic change while barely being able to talk will destroy your popularity 100% of the time - ThreadSky

lowrhoufo.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

I think it's really important to remember how much time FDR put into managing public perception and building narratives. Overseeing significant economic change while barely being able to talk will destroy your popularity 100% of the time

Reposted from The Fact Of Other Minds Stan Acct

So why did voters hate Joe Biden personally so fucking much?

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lessdismalsci.bsky.social•19 hours ago

All this Biden stuff is making me increasingly Mayor Pete pilled.

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I've said really negative things about his viability in the past, but that was before he got the beard. I think he's got a lot of merit

csilverandgold.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The beard is doing so much work!!!

csilverandgold.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I want Pritzker / Buttigieg tho

desiderratum.bsky.social•19 hours ago

He could talk, though, he just couldn't talk without significant risk of gaffes (which hasn't obviously hurt Trump)
If it was anything to do with his speech, it was how old he sounded (but again, listen to Trump's vitiated shadow of his voice in 2016)

beccasmullet.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Voters didn't hate him. They just were unimpressed because years of a mostly-functional government has left them, on the whole, spoiled rotten.

csilverandgold.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I really think this is it. Also thinking on how hard FDR fought to conceal his disability.

legjusme86.bsky.social•3 hours ago

They say its because of Israel but honestly I think its because of his cabinet picks.

roland00.bsky.social•18 hours ago

and as Hannah Zeavin explained in the Red Medicine podcast I linked you

1) Fireside Chats was the last time technology could be coded masculine yet also traditional father …
2) for when one has a preponderance of choice there are debates on what is the sublime unconscious ideal…all those different

roland00.bsky.social•18 hours ago

mediums and medians get coded as either female or not sublime ideal dad, just an ordinary banal dad, not the sacred excellence kind of dad

pretty much Biden was cooked come 2022 if he could not perform the job, and especially cooked when one is reorganizing social relations even if it’s win/win

roland00.bsky.social•18 hours ago

for everyone, merely the stress of change gets people and makes them grumpy, even if in the long term they are better off

thinking of it like a move where you switched jobs and got a 45% pay raise, you wanted to move, you wanted to switch jobs, but the stress of boxes some days kicks your ass

roland00.bsky.social•18 hours ago

one both needs a positive cheerleader who seems like they are there, but also stable cheerleader who does not feel like he is bullshitting you during the time of stress

cplusjava.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The present moment tells me he was very much right to do so.

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Says a lot about the media environment too

cplusjava.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The more things change and all that.

cplusjava.bsky.social•19 hours ago

William Randolph Hearst and Father Coughlin come to mind. Easy to forget how dominant New Deal opposition was in media presence.

cplusjava.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Same with Nazi sympathy.

alwaysadorecats.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I’d add - the public heard FDR’s voice at length, and often. Most voters only heard soundbites of Joe Biden, and if they were on right-wing sources, they only ever heard soundbites designed to make him seem senile.

eubanksengineeringresearch.com•19 hours ago

What I don’t understand is, Why?

It’s not like Biden himself needed to be out there talking about all the good he was doing. He had a whole army of people who could do that for him.

They just … didn’t.

Were they all individually and collectively that utterly ignorant of history and psychology?

lowrhoufo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I think there's a lot more skill and showmanship involved in doing this well beyond showing up, saying the talking points and checking all the boxes

eubanksengineeringresearch.com•19 hours ago

Sure, of course there is. And I’m not saying I know how to do it.

But there are professionals at this, and it’s not like Biden didn’t have ALL of the resources available.

It’s not that they tried and failed. It’s that they didn’t even try. As far as I can tell they didn’t see any need. Huh??!

snootacamund.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Charitable explanation is the Biden project was busier trying to do things than tell the press what they were doing. The press likes the Trump project because it’s all about PR.

eubanksengineeringresearch.com•18 hours ago

The press clearly prefers Trump, tho let’s be clear: it’s the drama they love; there’s no attempt to have anything but an abusive relationship with the public.

But I just can’t buy “Biden too busy”. He was US PRESIDENT FFS.
He’s perma-busy, and the ultimate delegator but he has infinite resources.

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