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.
In the meantime, Democrats will lie about the condition of the economy. Tell us we are thriving when our own experiences tell us we’re struggling. Anyone believes that Democrats gives a fuck any more than Republicans is a propagandized fool.
What a stupid thing to say.
My favorite part about talking to the extreme left is the way they always seem so in love with the extreme right.
You know the point I lost all respect for the opinions of Lemmy leftists? It’s when I got into an argument with the top mod of a major leftist community (who says she’s trans in her about page), about the treatment trans people would get under a second Trump term.
Her stance in short? To paraphrase, “Democrats worse than Republicans, who cares what happens to trans people in America, I’m not American.” Ffs.
It’s sad that I don’t even doubt that happened. A lot of mentally ill people use this platform. I’ve got a lot of issues myself, but one of them is not being utterly divorced from reality by choice.
yup. all they had to do was the minimum harm reduction, but nope… had to wreck the planet because they couldn’t get their way.
Democrats are worse than Republicans. Republicans will tell you to your face if they hate you. Democrats will act as an ally co-opt the language of the marginalized to control their movements, and then stab you in the back legislatively.
For what it’s worth, much of the rest of the world agrees with you. What you’re saying is quite obvious outside the influence of 24/7 US propaganda. I lived in the US for nearly a decade and was astounded by the fervent support for the Democrats despite their steady march to the right and betrayal of their constituents in the name of bipartisanship.
Your two parties employ the good cop/bad cop routine on a national scale. Should you opt for the good cop over the bad? Absolutely, because anyone who refuses to engage in damage control is an idiot, but you mustn’t forget they’re both cops and on the same team. The good cop is only being helpful because they want something, so they’ll do as much as they need to get it and will ultimately side with the bad cop over you to please their bosses: American oligarchs.
Be smart with your vote and choose the good cop, but don’t stop there. Work to kick both cops the fuck out, end your police state, and wrest control of the country from the oligarchs orchestrating the entire farce.
There is no such thing as a good cop or damage control. Damage control is liberal myth that suggests a slow painful death is better than a rapid one. In both scenarios you are dead.
“degrees of severity are a liberal myth” is the new most braindead take anyone has ever uttered
Now you’re just being stupid. As much as I disagree with all the libs lambasting you here, you’re just an ostensibly more progressive version of daft.
You know all about faking viewpoints don’t you
Please larp somewhere other than my replies.
Does it trigger cognitive dissonance? It was my comment that started this thread, it would be YOU in my replies
yeah the dems would have bombed iran, and venezula, and strangled cuba… sure buddy.
the twists you have to tie yourself into believing this garbage is hilarious.
all politicians suck, but the gop is actively trying to kill you, and you chose to enable them.
Anyone who rejects objective differences though? Absolutely brilliant. Better than everyone else.
The Democrats? It’s the Democrats who do this? Are we taking crazy pills??
Both of Biden’s White House Press Secretary stood in front of the press every day talking about how great the economy is that this working class are not struggling. In the meantime, we had the highest increase of homelessness ever recorded, the highest percentage of people living paycheck to paycheck. The highest level of auto repossession since 2008. The largest and fastest growing segment of the homeless are the elderly. Democrats do not give a flying fuck about the working class any more than Republicans do.
I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith
I dont think you know what that term means
I definitely do
Your obsession with saying that the Dems are just as shit as the republicans smells off to me
Yes, the Dems are shit. Those of us in the civilised world see them quite far right
But it’s absurd to pretend that the Dems are anywhere near as bad as the Republicans
Hence it seems like you have a reason to whip up anti-dem sentiment
ie. You aren’t arguing in good faith
Shit is shit regardless who it’s from and should never be tolerated or accepted.