Readers’ Voice

Joe Biden’s
popularity

President Biden’s frustration with his poll numbers is long overdue. Though his accomplishments and policies have had success and significant impact, the public, in general, remains oblivious. I would suggest this is largely a result of the narrow vision of his advisers who do not know how to communicate, do not respond to the siege of slanderous Republican lies and, for the most part, preach to the converted, not to the electorate at large.
When the Biden campaign learns to make clear just how most Republican policies affect every individual personally and how Democratic policies provide an opportunity to move each individual forward, poll numbers will improve. The electorate must be supported to move away from the fears infused by Republican propaganda and consider what they would do without health care, Social Security and many public programs that support their well-being and that are under attack by the Republican Party.
Gentility, rationality and reasoned argument – long mainstays of the Democratic Party – are not the only methods for communication and certainly not those most effective in the days of social media.

Bryan Lees, Montclair, N.J.
Source: The Washington Post