politics

We've known. But liberal purity politics got us trump anyway. But at least some first world brat can pat themselves on the back and say they didn't support a genocide by voting for a candidate that would not have declare war on Iran. Real good guys, I'll be sure to say thanks as we are all hauled off to a death camp

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:

1. 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.

2. 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!

There is no economy, power is an illusion

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).

A little late now. We're heading for Great Depression 2.0, and Republicans are in charge for the foreseeable future.

The median voter will never realize. They will always forget and eventually get scammed again. I haven't made peace with this, and feel a kind of grief about it, but it's the truth. We are trapped in this cycle of idiocy.

“When will ~~Americans~~ conservatives…”

More than half the country has already figured this out.

Also, it isn’t about the economy. If it were about the economy, the right would be losing their shit over the wild spending, the exploding deficit, massive spending on ICE and wasteful detention centers, stupid wars driving up energy costs and anything tangential to that, job losses, on and on and on…

It’s not about the economy. It’s about fascism, racism, nationalism, homophobia, misogyny, fake christianity, and all of the rest of the hotbutton issues the Right have effectively captured and turned into an ideology. As long as they have those things delivered to them by the truckload, everything else gets a pass.

Just read an article that says fox news has about 3x more viewership than CNN or NBC and the article was stating that CNN was up 11%.

Conservatism heavily relies on lifestyle marketing. You're not voting for promises, but for a lifestyle.

"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.

And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse.

this completely misunderstands their popularity in the first place.

They're alright with that along as its worse to brown people, gays, trans etc who after all are causing all this /,s

that the rich hucksters make away with the bank is a price they're prepared to pay as they put a maga hat on face full of shitty teeth because they can't afford decent dental care.

They won't.

Many of them are stupid. Many are poorly informed.

But many of them are operating with stupid axioms. They would rather suffer and die personally if it meant those people got it worse.

If you offered free health care, guns, and hamburgers to everyone but it meant that black people got it too, a lot of Americans would say no

The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.

“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

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

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...

The problem is the majority of Americans are still not very involved in Politics at all. They might vote, they might watch the news sometimes, but they don't follow it daily or look into politicians or political events.

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.

The fact that they'd rather have a convicted felon pedophile in office promising to detain/deprive other humans of basic needs and deport them from the country with no due process for the heinous crime of being here illegally, over a woman... speaks volumes.

Racism/misogyny/bigotry are top priority.