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I gotta assume a theater freelancer in Oregon probably didn’t vote for him
I was thinking the same, but....people surprise you. I know some lesbians that moved out of one (red) state into Colorado because of how they didn't feel quite safe there....but then voted for donvict, because "Republican do conomy good" type of reasons, from what I can discern.
Holy fuck.
I cannot understand how this lie persists to this day. Republicans have trashed the economy in every single administration they had for at least the last half century. I'm an adult with children and my lifetime has not seen a Republican that was good for the economy...
This is a holdover from Reagan, and the boom times through the 80s and into the 90s. Deregulation works.... until everything implodes/explodes. Revenue was up alongside the tax cuts because of the huge gains across the board, it just wasn't sustainable.
The economy is like an engine, you can squeeze massive horsepower out of it for a few races or regulate it to run for millions miles. There is a happy spot that produces the highest output with acceptable longevity, but since Reagan the Republican strategy has been to crank it to the max.
The Democrats also continued the deregulation and government has abdicated it's duty to enforce anti-trust laws, protect the commons, and ensure level playing fields. Add to that the lag time between government action and results, and you have the "Republicans do economy good".
We have been a runaway diesel for decades, and the engine is close to detonation.
Except it was a lie EVEN DURING REAGAN'S term. He had to raise taxes multiple times to cover his own tax cuts. Guess who he raised them on? Everyone but the rich, who got to keep their cuts.
I think it has something to do with how the right lionizes business so much. I think they adore business because it has zero democracy; it's basically a top-down structure, just like the authoritarian government they so crave.
Because they think government should be run like a business (another idea that is beyond stupid) and since they think only Republicans operate businesses, they seem to think this translates into "Republican in charge" = "good economy".
History and facts don't seem to enter into it, it's all vibes with that bunch.
Yup. The leopards are out and about eating every face they can find.
The stupid thing about all this is that everything that is happening right now was on full display for the entirety of 2024 up to the election. They said they would crash the economy, round up their list of "undesirables," destroy much of the inner workings of the federal government, etc, and half this country cheered it on, only to be [shocked Pikachu] when they actually followed through. Like, welcome to reality, actions have consequences. Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of the Democrats and how they operate, and that we are in need of serious overhaul in how we operate as a country, but this is about the most wrong way to go about it possible. A Harris win would've kept the status quo, possibly in perpetuity, but I'd rather that at this juncture than whatever the fuck is going on right now.
Yes, what is happening right now is very dangerous. If things get bad enough economically speaking, the demagogues will point the angriest set of magoffs at the other half of the country and grant them the "right" to do their worst.
People keep acting like things under Biden were awful and that the Democrats/Kamala/Biden were just being monsters to say the economy was actually tracking on a very good course. Sure, many people I'm sure were miserable as economic inequality has not been getting better. But again - the adults in the room know full fucking well things could get much, much worse, especially in the hands of the clueless and the party without any empathy whatsoever.
However, I don't think some have any idea just how much worse it could get. Many people are too young or have forgotten how miserable the 70s were, apparently. And people seem to not have learned about violence in the 60s.
And if people think they were mad about bullshit made-up nonsense like "Bidenflation", just fucking wait and see how angry they get over the kind of pain that donvict seems determined to inflict on everyone....if enough people are starving and are told by the likes of Faux that it's the fault of "DEI" or the trans or the liberals or Biden...enough will believe that to make things get very dangerous very quickly.
Oregon is more than the west coast. It’s only recently that the state isn’t literally, legally, run by the KKK.
Theater freelancer is also doing a lot of heavy lifting there, tbf