Actually YOUR way of thinking is why Trump won the election.
The stock market =/= the economy
The reason why Dems lost on the economy, is because they don’t understand this basic fact of reality. Telling people that everything is fine, when they can plainly see that it isn’t, is a losing strategy.
The real economy of paychecks, groceries and rent payments IS broken. And until it gets fixed, we will have people like Trump winning elections. Even if it’s all a lie…they are the only ones acknowledging that anything is wrong.
You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.
They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.
That doesn’t absolve the rural conservative voters, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. As far as things were going, our lovely oligarchs and mega corporations were doing just fine and skewing that number upwards. And that’s the problem. It’s not that we had a failing economy; it’s that we have disgustingly bad wealth distribution. A voter base capable of understanding what they’re actually asking for (higher wages, more purchasing power, higher taxes for multimillionaires) would have seen right through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled directly into it.
Actually YOUR way of thinking is why Trump won the election.
The stock market =/= the economy
The reason why Dems lost on the economy, is because they don’t understand this basic fact of reality. Telling people that everything is fine, when they can plainly see that it isn’t, is a losing strategy.
The real economy of paychecks, groceries and rent payments IS broken. And until it gets fixed, we will have people like Trump winning elections. Even if it’s all a lie…they are the only ones acknowledging that anything is wrong.
You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.
They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.
That doesn’t absolve the rural conservative voters, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. As far as things were going, our lovely oligarchs and mega corporations were doing just fine and skewing that number upwards. And that’s the problem. It’s not that we had a failing economy; it’s that we have disgustingly bad wealth distribution. A voter base capable of understanding what they’re actually asking for (higher wages, more purchasing power, higher taxes for multimillionaires) would have seen right through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled directly into it.