Since Obama, the US has crowed about adding jobs, but most of those jobs are bad jobs that nobody wants because they have low pay, high demand, and hurt your body long-term. McDonald’s isn’t a career for most people.
The cost of living has skyrocketed, unabated, and shrinkflation is everywhere along with inflation.
I don’t know why we’re all supposed to be so happy that companies have record profits when they don’t deign to share any with the workers who made those profits possible.
Because every single fucking one of us knows that if Amazon lost every delivery driver in one day, Jeff Bezos would not be able to physically deliver all the packages himself. The value that comes from these companies comes from the workers, not the figureheads skimming all the value creator by labor for themselves.
Why should we give one fucking shit that these fucking vampires are doing so well at our expense?
If voters genuinely think that the GOP does better on the economy, then it means the GOP has succeeded in gutting our education system and is relying on voters who either can’t fucking read or don’t give enough of a shit to read, and have no clear memory of the last 30 fucking years.
Although, in fairness to low-information voters, the Democrats absolutely have a history of crowing about their half-measures as though they’re exactly what voters needed and wanted. That can make some people feel like they’re unserious.
Well it’s because they are. The parties are not the same. One of them is full of terrorist whack jobs who want to dismantle democracy and the other is full of neoliberal chucklefucks who want to be middle managers for democracy and neither gives one fucking shit about regular ass citizens. That’s the one major thing they have in common.
I’m not sure why wanting to dismantle democracy is supposed to be a bad thing? American Democracy is why we are here right now. It was all extremely democratic.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
There have been bitter disputes within Congress — in 1856, Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator, was attacked and severely injured by a pro-slavery representative.
As a recent analysis in The Economist pointed out, given the historical relationship between economic fundamentals and sentiment, you would have expected Americans to be feeling pretty good about the economy right now.
One story is that we’re in a “vibecession,” in which people are buying into a negative narrative — to some extent purveyed by the news media — that is at odds not just with data but also with their own experience.
The notion that there’s a disconnect between perceptions of the economy and personal experience seems to be validated by the fact that consumer spending remains robust despite low economic confidence.
We’ve gained 13 million jobs since Joe Biden took office, yet Americans consistently report hearing more negative than positive news about employment.
But public perceptions of inflation may depend on the change in prices over several years rather than the one-year-or-less numbers economists usually emphasize.
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