Eutopia Hall didn’t realize she had neglected to sign the bottom of her mail-in ballot for governor until the county board of elections returned the document to her, asking her to complete it. But as she sat looking at the paper, she wondered if it was even worth a second trip to the mailbox.2021 Election: Complete coverage and analysis
So little had changed since she cast a ballot for Joe Biden in 2020 that “I started to not even press the issue.” Her job and community were still mired in pandemic restrictions. An increase in the child tax credit had brought a few more dollars into her home, but it was eaten up by costlier prices for gas and food and seemingly everything else, and a year after high hopes of significant change in her family’s situation, things seemed stagnant.
“I don’t think a lot of people have a lot of faith in Biden, like they were expecting at first,” said Hall, a 42-year-old nursing assistant. “I think it’s more of a bigger division than it was before. I thought it was gonna get better once the vaccines came out because there was so many people complaining about covid and wanting a cure, but then they came out with a vaccine nobody wants to take. Nothing has changed and we’re just stuck in the same place.”
Joe Biden has been president for 9 months. The vast majority of the public has taken the vaccines. But Biden is held responsible for the failure of a bunch of nincompoops to refuse for political reasons (and hestancy that should have been allayed by now.)
This is what happens when someone runs on the “I’ll bring the country together” platform. All it takes is for the other side to just it on the sidelines and do nothing and their promise goes up in flames. This keeps happening over and over again.
And yes, we are dealing with millions of people who just don’t have a clue about how government and politics works. It is a fundamental problem.
Sadly, Sinemanchin is single-handedly proving this ridiculous narrative. By refusing to go along with the president’s program they are making him look like a loser. Which he will be if they fail to pass his agenda.