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annabanana

(52,791 posts) Thu Aug 4, 2016, 08:03 AM Aug 2016

The "right direction/wrong direction" shibboleth . . .

Whenever I run across the question, "Is the Country headed in the right direction or wrong direction"" I am puzzled.

Conventional cable news wisdom always places the blame for "wrong direction" squarely at the feet of the President. That is not how I've been answering for the past 8 years. To my eyes, the "wrong direction" is due almost entirely to the obstructionist do-nothing Repub majorities in the House and Senate.

I wish they'd just stop using that question without qualifiers.

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The "right direction/wrong direction" shibboleth . . . (Original Post) annabanana Aug 2016 OP

I agree that is a difficult question to answer. apcalc Aug 2016 #1

Also, I do not recall EVER having seen that poll resulting in people thinking the country is going Squinch Aug 2016 #2

apcalc

(4,465 posts)

1. I agree that is a difficult question to answer.

Reply to annabanana (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2016, 08:17 AM

Aug 2016

I used to answer it thinking just as you have described. Lately however, with advances by gays, movements valuing people ( like Black Lives Matter), with a divided Supreme Court where we are winning some battles, with more POC and women in office and in good jobs, and the nomination of Hillary Clinton, I am now answering "right direction".

Squinch

(51,106 posts)

2. Also, I do not recall EVER having seen that poll resulting in people thinking the country is going

Reply to annabanana (Original post)

Thu Aug 4, 2016, 08:45 AM

Aug 2016

in the right direction. NEVER.

And it's always a huge number saying "wrong direction" and a very small number saying "right direction." It always looks completely dire. Has looked completely dire for the 30 years I have been aware of it.

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