 Look folks, I'll be perfectly honest with you. I have been a little bit more cynical than usual lately Particularly because of this year and look, I know what you're thinking. I feel the same way, but I mean it just it feels like you know humanity Isn't up to the task of dealing with some of the biggest issues we face like climate change And when you consider the fact that we see every single day It seems like a new video of a Karen throwing the fit because he or she won't wear a mask or you see People still following Donald Trump even after he's bungled this pandemic and you see people on our side You know in the Democratic Party primary voting against their own self-interest for an imbecile like Joe Biden And like you can't help but just feel like nothing is ever going to change or get better Having said that though I do want to share with you a Different perspective for this video and then we'll get back to being doomer because there's a couple of polls that are kind of Helping to make me see that you know, maybe we're not as bad off as As I was thinking at least from the standpoint of you know American citizens right our public officials are trash I will maintain that they are garbage our institutions are failing us our politicians aren't doing a good job But I will say, you know, Americans know What the right policies are for the most part? So this poll from Hill and Harris X found that 82% of Americans actually support a National mask mandate and only 18% Opposite so this is actually really encouraging to hear because I I was under the impression that the numbers wouldn't be that high like if I had to guess I'd say a slim majority of Americans support a National mask mandate because if you look at like the Facebook comments underneath a particular article or YouTube comments Which you should never do Like it seems like Much more people are anti-mask than they are in reality But really what we're seeing is a vocal minority, right? It's presenting this type of skewed image of what people actually believe I mean just the other day I covered a video of Judge Jeanine Pirro being anti-mask after she was previously pro-mask So, you know, we see all these viral videos and we see Republicans respond You know in these groups saying I'm not gonna wear a mask and this is tyranny but overall I think that people are Persuading everyone else to do the right thing like the right side in this Debate which it shouldn't even be a debate and I hesitate to call it that but I mean it's America So we politicize everything, but I think that the right side ultimately is Winning out and not just with regard to a national mask mandate, which is absolutely the right policy But with the perception of how our government Trump in particular is handling COVID-19 a pull from NPR and Ipsos found that when it comes to the United States is handling of COVID-19 and Comparison with the rest of the world two-thirds of Americans think that we're actually handling it worse than other countries with 41% saying they believe we're handling it much worse now additionally a survey monkey and NBC news poll asked people Who they trust when it comes to COVID-19 and a majority of Americans at 51% do in fact trust Dr. Fauci in spite of Trump's attempts to discredit him with 29% distrusting him now when it comes to Donald Trump These results are almost mirrored with less than a third of voters at 31% trusting Trump compared to 59% who don't trust him So make no mistake about it That's still too large of a number like 31% of Americans trusting Donald Trump is way too high But understand that a majority of Americans are Correct here. They're you know, rightfully skeptical of Donald Trump and they're trusting Dr. Fauci more They support a national mask mandate. This is a good sign, right? Common sense isn't entirely gone in America. It's still there. You sometimes just kind of have to look for it, right and Encourage people to Practice common sense more frequently. Um, so yeah, this is this is encouraging but there's another poll that I want to look at here because During the Democratic Party primary support for Medicare for all was actually decreasing a little bit as you know we worked to increase public support for Medicare for all between 2016 and 2019 Individuals like Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden who were constantly fear mongering over Medicare for all Actually managed to be successful at driving down support for Medicare for all and while support for Medicare for all was decreasing Support for a public option was rising. So, you know as someone who is a proponent of Medicare for all a purist That's my number one litmus test I was absolutely distraught by those results, right? But now during a pandemic we are being proven right and even as people casted their votes for Joe Biden during the Democratic Party primaries They still supported Medicare for all according to exit polls, which tells us that they weren't necessarily voting for him because they believed in him and The policies that he's espousing. They just wanted someone who they believed was the most electable better suited to take on Donald Trump And they mistakenly believed the mainstream media now I say mistakenly loosely because at the time with the information that we had it didn't seem like Joe Biden could actually beat Donald Trump But COVID-19 really did change everything, but I mean people didn't necessarily Determined who they were going to support based on policies They just voted based on electability because that's what MSNBC and CNN Constantly talked about but now during a pandemic I'm happy to report unsurprisingly now that more people than ever in America need healthcare Medicare for all is very much still popular So as Jerry Martin of Newsweek reports Democrats overwhelmingly threw their support behind Medicare for all according to data released Tuesday from a Hill Harris Expo Increasing support for the national health insurance program may be linked to the coronavirus pandemic many businesses have closed permanently Leaving their former employees with no employment based coverage Medicare for all which would create a nationwide single-payer health insurance plan for all Americans was the cornerstone of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders suspended presidential campaign presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has not embraced the Medicare for all platform Although many of Biden's potential voters support the program out of 948 registered voters who participated in the poll 87% of Democrats said they were in favor of Medicare for all Independent voters also lean towards the idea with 69% supporting the concept less than half of the Republicans surveyed Agreed with the idea with only 43% supporting providing health insurance to all Americans in total Medicare for all was supported by 67% of registered voters and opposed by 33% Voters between the ages of 35 to 49 showed the greatest support for Medicare for all with 80% of that demographic saying they were in favor of the program surveyed voters between 18 to 34 also thought highly of the idea with 78% of them giving Medicare for all their support the Hill Harris expo carried a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.18 percentage points so I think that this is encouraging to see because what it tells us is that Americans aren't too far gone like we're not beyond redemption like we can still have nice things because most Americans Have bought into the idea that they deserve nice things. They support Medicare for all. They are you know Competent in determining who to support and trust during a pandemic. They're reasonable with regard to you know trusting Fauci over Donald Trump and that's encouraging to see the task that we have ahead of us. However is Getting them to not vote against their own self-interest So if we get them to agree with us on the policy that's step one But I think the hardest step is getting them to actually Vote for politicians who agree with them because politicians are out of step with what voters want So how do we combat the mass of propaganda that they are constantly being bombarded with? I think that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic primary comfortably had mainstream media not been completely biased against him But because for so long they you know talked about electability this electability that and Bernie's just not electable and Bernie didn't really actually challenge that narrative sufficiently People believed it so they voted against their own self-interest because you know Even if they may not support Joe Biden, they would rather go with someone who they don't agree with on everything Then risk losing to Donald Trump. That's what we saw So, you know the goal here is to not just get them to agree with us on the policy But to actually get them to do what makes that policy a reality and that really is I think The struggle with you know leftism in America. That's what we have to do. That's the task ahead of us It's not impossible. I mean people agree more with us than they do Republicans or Democrats, but yet they keep winning. So what do we do? how do we combat that and There's a lot of approaches that we have to take but ultimately that's the goal this tells us You know what we need to do convince those people who already agree with us most Americans that they have to stop voting against their Own self-interest. There's no right or wrong answer to that. It's tough Propaganda is going to be louder than you know, what we're saying. It's gonna be more persuasive than indie media But nonetheless, we at least know what we have to do. We at least know where to look in terms of like Shifting, you know the country It's just a matter of getting that mass of Americans who agree with us Mobilized and activate them politically and get them to vote for politicians that agree with them. So, yeah I thought that these polls that all came out this week were pretty encouraging and When we don't really have that much good news lately, I'm gonna take anything I can find and this is certainly good news