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%.
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Conservatism heavily relies on lifestyle marketing. You're not voting for promises, but for a lifestyle.
And licence to hate
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.
"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.
It's not Republicans it's just the RINOs! /s
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.
The majority of Americans are stupid and apathetic
A significant minority are hateful and vicious
“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
They will realize about 50 years to late…
They've been doing that since the 60s, right?
2002f for me
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.
The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.
I come from the south, I know my heritage has a confederate officer in it.
John Brown did nothing wrong.
The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.
huzzah
Amen. Instead they were coddled, allowed to put up statues (of their loss lmao), and left to fester.
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Republicans will have a place in America as long as people are racist. Every other aspect just serves to let some white people feel superior.
I still can't decide if the Republican leadership is so hellbent on grift, that they don't care about the overall economic effects, or they really are just that stupid.
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.
Laughs in Obama spending spree that pushed public debt to >100% levels.
But hey, he just fucked next generation, that's not your problem.
I bet you clap with your fingers spread
I'll preface this by saying he should have taxed the fucking rich to close the gap, but that said, he was pretty much gonna have to spend a shitload of money. That's the consequence of inheriting the 2008 crash. Economic stimulation by government spending is like the typical solution to an economic disaster. Had he not inherited 8 years of Bush, he almost certainly would have spent less. To be fair to Bush, if I remember right and I might not, I think some of the causes of the 2008 crash came from earlier, but I'm fuzzy on the details now. Bush also watched the problem metastasize for 8 years without doing a damn thing in the best case, though, so not much credit due to him.
So yeah, Obama racked up a ton of debt, but he did a lot of it cleaning up the mess of predecessors. He should have taxed the piss out of the rich, especially since they're the ones who both manufactured and profited off the disaster, but fuck, NOBODY in the US government seems willing to even entertain the idea.
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.
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