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Most Americans believe, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, that Joe Biden is s “puppet of the left”. This telephone and online national survey of 1,000 likely United States voters was conducted between February 16th and 17th. The tabulation yielded a commanding 54% conclusion that the 46th president is subservient to leftism. These results, less than a month after Biden’s inauguration, sheds light on a far greater problem for his government.
The findings convey a position that was sustained consistently throughout the 2020 presidential election. This was the position of both Donald Trump as well as moderate and conservative outsiders. The poll’s three questions were straightforward. The first question: “How much influence does the left-wing of the Democratic Party have on President Biden?” The second: “How much influence does big business have on President Biden?” And finally: “Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ‘Joe Biden’s not the moderate nice guy that they made him out to be. He’s a puppet of the radical left.'”
The result of the final questions pours scorn on the efforts of the Biden administration to portray themselves as anything less than a regime focused on a radical leftward schism attempt to shift America away from her natural rights, rule of law democratic ideological base into the realms of socialism, spearheaded by identity politics and cultural Marxism. A solid portion of Americans proves that the trojan horse cloak that the Democratic Party had choreographed to subterfuge the citizenry has not been successful.
The magnitude of what this national poll reveals cannot be underestimated. The second question addressing the understood “influence” of big business on Biden captures fully the accomplice role that woke capitalism is having in trying to deconstruct America. When one considers the role the mainstream media now has of political activism, instead of objective reporting, and that this new propagandizing task is built into every news that is reported, it is impressive that 54% of the electorate have not been duped. When one factor in the results of another Rasmussen Reports poll of a few days earlier about whether Biden’s election victory was “fair”, the greater concern of electoral integrity is also laid bare.
In the second cited national survey of February 10th and 11th, 61% of Republican voters indicated they did not believe that the 2020 election was fair. Additionally, the specific factor of mail-in voting was believed by those polled to have led to “unprecedented voter fraud”. This presents an enormous challenge to notions of political legitimacy in modern America. If a large number of Americans believe that the recent election was not legitimate and the current administration is a tool of the radical left, the country is in for great challenges ahead.
The most positive consequence of this tragic gauntlet that the United States is experiencing is the awakening of civic consciousness, unseen in many years. Times of crisis tend to bring this about. A virtuous society is consolidating. Eventually, Americans will confront and defeat the blitzkrieg of the left.
Julio M Shiling, political scientist, writer, director of Patria de Martí and The Cuban American Voice, lecturer and media commentator. A native of Cuba, he currently lives in the United States. Twitter: @JulioMShiling // Julio es politólogo, escritor, director de Patria de Martí y The Cuban American Voice. Conferenciante y comentarista en los medios. Natural de Cuba, vive actualmente en EE UU.