The media did not even acknowledge its own silence, taking it for granted that members of the public should not get to hear the president speak.
The media praised Biden's common touch and empathy, but his campaign managers seem positively terrified of him interacting with the public or the press in anything but the most choreographed fashion.
There's always been a gap between politicians' priorities and those of the public, what voters are promised and what they ultimately get, but the government has never been quite this out-of-touch and indifferent to public opinion.
Most of the political rituals of yesteryear, such as the debates and the in-person glad handing with voters, led to the incorporation of public opinion into a politician's knowledge of the world.
Neither party has a comprehensive agenda focused on cutting government spending or raising the collective welfare of the country.
Focusing on these issues, particularly when there is little likelihood of resolution, permits politicians in both parties to serve the interests of the billionaire oligarchs in the donor class while pretending to fight for the public.
At protests at the University of Alabama, both the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel cohorts began alternately shouting at one another the common and vulgar crystallization of public opinion: F-K Joe Biden.
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