Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?
Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.
For the third straight time, a Democratic president handed a Republican president an economy that was at the least pretty good, and at most (Bill Clinton) really humming along very nicely. And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse. Which also means that Democratic presidents have to clean up messes left by their GOP predecessors.
Republicans dont care about the economy, they care about their wallets. They will keep voting for any red tie that makes them pay one penny fewer in April and call anyone who disagrees foolish.
I can’t stand these people and im fuckin drowning in them
What will likely happen is that when we finally get a Democrat in next election, all the bad shit Trump caused will just be blamed on the Democrats who just got into office.
I think even if this was on billboards and schools started to teach this basic fact, it would take decades for it to finally sink in.
I cannot tell you how many “non political” people tend to believe it, too. I could see dumbass cult members parroting nonsense talking points about how magical Republicans are on the economy, but the fact that people that barely pay attention believe it is just exhausting.
Far too many idiots think: “the government should be run like a business, and Republicans bend over the hardest for business, therefore we should put a Republican in as a President-as-CEO, preferably someone also from the world of business”.
It’s all so very fucking stupid, starting with the very premise…
In the presence of continued propaganda from the GQP and the duplicity of the Fourth Estate supporting and distributing that propaganda I don’t think it will ever sink in.
Oligarch owned mainstream news providers have become Republican disinformation tools - slightly veiled versions of Fox News held to no standard at all. Facts have little chance against widespread lies repeated constantly almost everywhere.
Hell, even before Faux came along, the mainstream media was and is embarrassingly skewed to the right.
But that was not enough for the Bircher types. They resented that something like Watergate was allowed to bring down their Nixon. They needed outlets that were ridiculously, cartoonishly even, right wing. And they had the balls to call them “fair and balanced”.
The funniest thing is when you see some Bircher bitching about how Faux is “woke” or something unhinged like that.
I mean, Network skewered the corporate capture of news quite well, and that was 50 years ago.
The liberal media helped fascism grow in the 1920s and 1930s in America. They also did the same the second time in the mid 2010s to now.
edit: seems quite a few don’t like to acknowledge reality
Explain how liberal media supports fascism
The entire system, which is propped up by the media, supports fascism. Media is nothing more than the propaganda arm of oligarchy.
bingo
These guys can do it way better than I ever could, and way more in depth (it’s a 2 parter).
edit: I’ll add that this is the “Behind The Bastards” podcast so anyone else can find this in the future
And by liberal media, I’m assuming you are talking about the corporate media that the conservatives all call “liberal media”.
I certainly don’t mean leftist media, but the prevailing liberal media conglomerate is what I’m referring to. So yeah I guess.
The worst part is that this time the effects are affecting everyone in the world. Fuck you trump. You fat cunt 🖕
It affects the whole world each time.
every 4-8 years. then they forget in 2.
Well they won’t need to worry about this anymore because Republicans aren’t going anywhere regardless of what happens. A fascist authoritarian government will be there for the next decade.
“Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?”
I live in a red state.
LOL. LMAO even.
They WILL vote against their interests as long as the R is next to the name.
We’ve seen Republicans wreck the Clinton economy and the Obama economy, both of which were very good. The one-term Biden economy wasn’t sturdy enough yet to withstand their bullshit as well.
I’ve been waiting 20+ years for Republicans to wake up. They will never wake up. So many uncrossable lines have been crossed and yet they still maintain their momentum and people fall over themselves to vote for them in elections.
The problem is twofold:
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Most people are chronically unaware or ignorant of who represents them. Even terminally online political junkies often don’t do any research into the candidates they vote for, and they don’t follow up on whether or not their campaign promises were fulfilled. They lock in and vote R all the way down the ballot. To be completely fair™ and balanced™ - Democrats are also guilty of this and will happily vote for the D all the way down the ballot which is how we end up with progressive candidates running 3rd party in primaries losing to DINO incumbents.
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There is too much disconnect between which parties in government are responsible for which policies. Many people believe the president has far more power than they actually do. In reality, outside of executive orders and appointing SCOTUS judges, the largest political impact a president has is to be a veto on legs. Congress are the ones who truly hold the power, but because you are represented by one U.S. house representative for your district and two senators for your state, it’s easy for people to think that their vote for those seats, win or lose, has little impact in shaping national policy. But even when their party has a majority (albeit slim), Republicans rarely draft any kind of legislation that is aimed to help their constituents or fulfill their campaign promises. People never check their reps voting records to see that they barely show up for their jobs, and that when they do, it’s usually to cast a deciding vote against something that would help their constituents tremendously if passed. It all circles back around to people not bothering to do research or follow up with their votes in any way.
Voting to a lot of people is a team sport, and if their team is winning then all is right with the world. The bad things are happening because the others caused it, or are preventing it from being fixed. It can never be because they made a bad decision and voted in someone terrible into office. It’s always someone else’s fault. If good things are happening, it’s because they made the right decision all along and they are succeeding in spite of opposition - no need to even bother checking if the guy who represents you voted in favor of the good thing or not!
It’s much simpler. The problem is Fox et al.
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Biden had the post COVID and global inflation crises to deal with, every nation suffered the same, some more than others, the US less than most. He didn’t do too bad.
Trump doesn’t give a rats ass about the economy, his entire purpose was to enrich himself and his friends.
Biden (and now Trump) also had that pesky little commitment to giving billions of dollars to a genocidal apartheid ethnostate with free healthcare.
Israel controls America’s politicians because the supreme court enabled systemic political corruption by foreign states
That really needs to be repealed
Supreme court decisions that harm national security should be reviewed by the military and a special politically balanced court, the system places too much power in the hands of too few individuals. Lifelong jobs for politically appointed justices are you nuts. It’s a platform for tyranny.
Israel controls America’s politicians because they are either quietly-corrupt feckless liberals or openly-corrupt fascists. Sure, fuck the Supreme Court too 100%, but you shouldn’t absolve people for the blame of their own actions / decisions. The politicians still choose (mostly) to take the money.
Otherwise I agree yeah.
Yeah thats true they fall for it almost every time
Conservatism heavily relies on lifestyle marketing. You’re not voting for promises, but for a lifestyle.
And licence to hate
Their mantra is FREEDOM, despite wanting to do nothing but take away everyone else’s.
But the freedom they’re talking about is Freedom To…not Freedom From…
As in freedom to be an unrepentant racist, homophobic , transphobic asshole.
Meanwhile the otherside is losing their freedom from hate, torment, persecution…
They won’t.
No, because the media is controlled by Republicans.
“When will Romans learn the truth? Caesar is…”
“When will Russians learn the truth? The Aristocracy is…”
“When will Germans learn the truth? The nazi party is…”
Going by history, the answer is, if ever, at the end.
You’re making the mistake of believing them when they use “good economic management” as the reason behind their vote
It’s a lie
They don’t really care about the economy.
“The Economy” is lofty, worthy, and who could argue against someone who is for a stronger economy?
They will vote republican because republicans don’t just allow their hate and ignorance, they tell them that they are righteous for it
Not one of them could tell you what GDP means, or how fiscal policy affects inflation, but they can tell you exactly who is on the long list of people they hate and fear
Not saying it was all Clinton, but Bush inherited a great economy, which he nuked by deregulating Wall Street.
Obama inherited that, did all the best to right the ship.
The orange kid-fucker tried taking credit for the state of the economy within months, and got laughed at. his shitty policies and robbing the nation let the economy slip but his complete bumblefuck of COVID lead to another crash
Biden inherited that, did whatever he could but the reds lead by that ancient fuck mitch outright said they would block any and all meaningful legislation just to make him look bad.
orange rapist somehow sleezed his way back in and is now on a blatant power grab, openly embezzling money, and the economy is 1 bad day away from a total collapse…which I am almost expecting.
Why don’t right leaning people see this? Because anyone over 40 joyously watches focks nooz, oann and all those other blatant propaganda outlets while the rest listen to blowrogan and other right-winger propaganda podcasts (usually dark-funded by Russia, Israel, etc).
Bush had a lot of other major issues that affected the economy. Mainly being a puppet for his father and the other cronies obsessed with oil in the Middle East. As usual Americas obsession with the Middle East is both hindering and actively destroying us.
Yeah I left out the whole part of Dick using the war for his companies to get no-big contracts. But the biggest one is Wall Street. Because much like COVID, it was at the tail end of his term and left as a mess for the next person to clean up…and ultimately get blamed for
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Our economy has been vigorously fucked by bOtH pArTiEs for over 50 years. (even Clinton, see NAFTA)
The Ds aren’t “cleaning up messes” of their opponents, they’re doing damage control for their tag-team mates.
If you sit at the table with Nazis…
Yeah. Democrats are toe the liners.
