{"id":1253318,"date":"2022-01-29T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1253318"},"modified":"2022-01-29T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:58:20","slug":"helping-fareed-understand-why-bidens-approval-numbers-are-so-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/helping-fareed-understand-why-bidens-approval-numbers-are-so-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Fareed understand why Biden\u2019s Approval Numbers are so Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhelping-fareed-understand-why-bidens-approval-numbers-are-so-low%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1253318&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Helping Fareed understand why Biden\u2019s Approval Numbers are so Low<\/p>\n<p>In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.<br \/>\nThomas Sowell, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Chicago Hoover Institution Economist<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks after, according to reports, the Biden administration secretly met with various media companies to request more favorable coverage (\u201cMedia Companies \u2018Meet in Secret\u2019 with Biden White House to discuss more favorable economic coverage,\u201d The Daily Caller, Brianna Lyman, Dec. 7, 2021), Fareed Zakaria, the Harvard trained host of CNN\u2019s \u201cFareed Zakaria GPS\u201d usefully \u201cconfessed\u201d on Twitter (Dec. 20, 2021) that he finds it \u201cpuzzling\u201d that \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s popularity is so low.\u201d In fact, Biden\u2019s approval at the time was about 45% but, according to Quinnipiac, it has fallen to a pathetic 33 percent (\u201cQuinnipiac Poll shows Biden with 33% approval\u201d, Brett Samuels, 1\/12\/22). In fact, Fareed\u2019s bewilderment is what is actually bewildering to normal common-sensical people who live outside the bubble.<br \/>\nOn the home front, it couldn\u2019t be that Biden pretends he has FDR-like majorities in congress while he attempts to ram things through that terrify half the population (\u201cThis Democrat thinks Biden has fundamentally misunderstood his mandate,\u201d Chris Cilliza, CNN, Nov. 7 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that on his first day in office, he undermined our energy independence by ending the \u201cKeystone pipeline\u201d (\u201cKilling Keystone XL: How Biden Destroyed American Energy Independence,\u201d Eric Scheiner and Ben Graham, The Daily Signal, Dec, 28, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that he has shown weakness toward Iran\u2019s quest to obtain nuclear weapons (\u201cThe Biden Team Knows its Iran Policy is Failing,\u201d Anthony Ruggiero, FP News, Dec. 31, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that when campaigning\u201d he promised to \u201cshut down the virus, not the economy,\u201d but that after he was elected, he did the very opposite (\u201cBiden\u2019s Covid Death Milestone. Indeed, more Americans have died of the virus in 2021 than in all of 2020,\u201d Wall Street Journal, Editorial Board, Nov. 25, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that Biden promised a return to normalcy after the alleged chaos of the Trump years but delivered massive chaos and incompetence (\u201cBiden promised competence and order. Chaos and uncertainty are winning,\u201d Jonathan Lemire, Politico, 12\/19\/ 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that Biden laughed and walked away when he was asked why he has not pressed China on the origins of the Covid virus and has never demanded in public that China over the origins of the virus (\u201cBiden laughs at reporter that asked why he isn\u2019t pressing China on COVID origins\u201d, Ian Schwartz, RealClearPolitics, Dec. 15, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that Biden reacts with anger and refuses to respond to questions about his son Hunter\u2019s laptop (\u201cJoe Biden Storms off when asked about FBI seizing Hunter\u2019s Laptop,\u201d Baxter Dmitry, News Punch Oct. 19, 2020). It couldn\u2019t be that the Biden-administration shows contempt both for the law and the American people when it lies that the southern border is secure, even as people can see with their own eyes on the local news that children and adult men \u201cflood into the United States illegally, by the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands\u201d (\u201cDHS Secretary Mayorkas Insists: The Border is closed.\u2019 Susan Jones, March 22, 2921).\u201d It couldn\u2019t be that Biden assigns Kamala Harris to deal with the problem at the southern border so that she could, so to speak, write a sociology paper for class on the root causes of illegal immigration (\u201cAll This \u2018Root Causes\u2019 Immigration Talk by Kamala Harris Is a Cop-Out,\u201d Ruben Navarrette Jr., June 10, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that inflation, which is especially destructive to the poor, is at a 40 year high (\u201cUS Inflation Surges to Near 40 Year High testing Biden,\u201d AFP, Dec. 10, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that Biden regularly turns his back on reporters and walks away refusing to answer questions (\u201cBiden refuses to take questions after dismal jobs report. Biden has developed a reputation for failing to engage with reporters\u201d, Brian Flood, Fox News, Oct. 8, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that when criticized Biden regularly blames everyone but himself and snaps at reporters when, rarely, they ask him a pointed question (\u201cPresident Biden blames everyone but himself, Oxford Leader, Sept, 8, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that Biden is constantly so rambling and incoherent that even a New York Times columnist \u201cbegged\u201d him not to run for re-election (\u201cAlarmingly Incoherent\u2019: NY Times Columnist Begs Biden Not to Run for Re-Election,\u201d Joseph Curl, Daily Wire, Dec. 16, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that his vice-president has supported such ridiculous policing policies that homicides and crime, including assassinations of police, are spiking across the country to the point that even former \u201cDefund the Police\u201d Democrats are now calling to reverse course (\u201cBehind London Breed\u2019s stunning \u2018defund the police\u2019 turnaround in San Francisco,\u201d Michael Shellenberger, NY Post, Dec. 15, 2021). One could continue indefinitely but that should suffice for present purposes.<\/p>\n<p>On the international front, it couldn\u2019t be that Biden was shown to be \u201ccallous and dishonest\u201d for his response to his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that saw 13 American military people murdered, over 100 more injured, and 169 Afghan\u2019s killed (\u201cJoe Biden revealed as \u2018callous, dishonest\u2019 for botched Afghanistan withdrawal, Paul Murray, Skynews, Nov. 16, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that after leaving a massive amount of US military equipment behind for the Taliban terrorists government, the Biden administration is sending the Taliban millions of dollars in US aid (\u201cBiden Admin to Send the Taliban Millions in US Dollars After Arming them with $83 Billion in US Military weapons,\u201d Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit, Oct 10, 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that after this stopped during the Trump years, North Korea has restarted its ballistic missile program and has been firing missiles, including, reportedly, hypersonic missiles, towards Japan (\u201cNorth Korea Preparing For &#8220;Long-Term Confrontation&#8221; With US\u201d, NDTV.com, Jan. 20, 2022; \u201cNorth Korea test-fires long-range missiles, officials say,\u201d The missiles allegedly hit a target 1,500 kilometers away,\u201d Christine Theodorou and Ivan Pereira, abcnews.com, September 13 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that fleets of Chinese fighter planes now under Biden regularly invade Taiwan\u2019s air space while China makes threatening statements to Taiwan (\u201cRecord number of China planes enter Taiwan air defence zone,\u201d BBC News, 5 October 2021). It couldn\u2019t be that just as Russia annexed Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration (\u201cEight Years of Obama\u2019s Weakness towards Russia,\u201d Andrew Kugle, The Washington Free Beacon, February 26, 2018), Russia is again massing an invading army on Ukraine\u2019s border and, as we speak, Ukraine officials have stated that they are \u201cshocked\u201d that Biden appeared to give a green light to a Russian invasion (\u201cUkraine shocked at Biden \u2018green light to Putin\u2019 incursion,\u201d Matthew Chance, CNN, Jan. 20, 2022).<\/p>\n<p>Although intellectuals perform an essential role in civilizational and cultural advance, they one of their occupational hazards is that they overestimate their ability to solve real-world societal problems. Although Fareed, on his CNN show, condescendingly gives his devotees in the audience quizzes and reading assignments of books by his favorite \u201cliberals\u201d as if he is teaching children, wisdom is, unfortunately, not found on multiple choice tests. Everything works out splendidly in the classroom, in fact, so splendidly that our \u201cintellectual\u201d elites simply cannot let reality intrude upon their whimsies. As philosopher\/mathematician A.N. Whitehead points out in The Function of Reason, solving \u201creal world\u201d problems requires a qualitatively different kind of intelligence, not that of a Plato, a philosopher or abstract theorist but that of a Ulysses, a doer, perhaps even a coarse businessman who is literally incomprehensible to \u201cintellectuals\u201d that are much more comfortable in their safe-spaces with flowery platitudes. One does not acquire actual worldly wisdom in the classroom (although one might acquire it by opposing it). The real lesson of Fareed\u2019s bewilderment is that one of the things most bookish intellectuals find impossible to understand is their own limitations:<\/p>\n<p>Intellect is not wisdom.<br \/>\nThomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although intellectuals perform an essential role in civilizational and cultural advance, they one of their occupational hazards is that they overestimate their ability to solve real-world societal problems. \u2026 The real lesson of Fareed\u2019s bewilderment is that one of the things most bookish intellectuals find impossible to understand is their own limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}