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.
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.