Americans have voted for Donald Trump to become president again, and the economy is the biggest reason
Americans have voted for Donald Trump to become president again, and the economy is the biggest reason
Sweeping all of the swing states, Trump’s was an emphatic victory. And a key reason is that many Americans feel worse off than they were four years ago.
Imagine being so fucking stupid you vote Trump to handle the economy
"He's a businessman, he knows business." I don't think business and economics are the same thing.
"Economy" --> "Financial markets"
And yes, people with savings are beating inflation with yields on their investments, not with wage increases.
The fact that it only increases the inequality and wealth concentration for everyone* but the very few on the top is lost in the timeframe.
*I do mean almost everyone, even with a few mil in savings (stock, bond, real-estate, etc markets) & insane gains for decades now these people are worse off compared to how much monies & power the billionaire class gained.
This brings me back to a point I keep on making; I really do not care if the vast majority of people vote selfishly. In fact, I want you to vote selfishly.
Just for the love of God be smart about it.
You're hurting? You're feeling economic pain? Absolutely take those feelings into the ballot box with you.
But why in the absolute fuck would you vote for the guy who has promised to make everything more expensive?
The problem is not that people are selfish. Selfish is fine, selfish is good. We can work with selfish. But what we need, desperately, is to teach people how to act effectively in their own self interest, instead of being lead around by the nose by billionaires.
That starts at the formative years. You can't all the sudden instill some new sense of self in a 30 something year old man, grinding away at work for the last 10 years, only to have enough money to come home, drink a six pack and watch the sports package or play whatever latest video game.
In order to be smart about it, they have to take the steps and spend the time to educate themselves.
Maybe if you go around the billionaires and make that easier, cheaper, faster or more enjoyable you stand a chance... but I have no idea what that even looks like. Or how you prevent billionaires from spoiling it.
I think there are ways. It really feels to me like the left has left a lot of ground untapped in terms of our messaging.
There's a lot of leftist ideas that, when presented without an explicitly "Leftist" context, really appeal to right wing voters.
Like, when did unions become a political thing? How the fuck did we lose them on unions? And Jesus Christ, we're talking about the party of "rugged individualists", how are we not selling them on solar power?
"Still suckling on the teat of some oil baron? Damn son, I get all my power from God's beautiful sun and wind, and can't no one take it away from me."
"What's that you say, you gotta work sick because you're too pussy to tell your California elite CEO to go fuck himself? Sounds like you need a union son."
Like, am I fucking crazy here? How the hell did the American left lose the Midwest when there's so many ways to appeal to these people, if someone would just try to actually meet them where they are.
How fucking stupid are people Jesus Christ.
You got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know… morons.
We just got the answer to that question yesterday.
You lost to garbage.
We'll just assume that question was rhetorical.
Showing just how gullible American voters are.
Trump got 2 million less votes than he did in 2020. I think this is more of a case where left-leaning people failed to show up in numbers that led for Biden's win in 2020.
Overall voter turnout dropped by something like 18 million. So yeah. The fact that Biden and the Democratic Party are obsessed with tooting their own horns while the lived experience of the entire fucking middle class has gotten measurably worse caused this. The election just underlines their failure to do fucking ANYTHING.
And yes, I know the GOP obstructs everything. But for fucks sake can we please try some malicious compliance at the very least? Or - and hear me out - just do shit anyways, make a difference, and fuck the rules. The GOP does that when they do fucked up things; refusing to do that in the interest of doing GOOD things that would actually HELP people is a self-defeating strategy. Stop bringing a deck of cards to a fucking gunfight. Jesus tapdancing christ.
Didn't Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?
There is money pouring into these campaigns, and it doesn't make any difference at all. It's all just a corporate welfare project for local TV media in swing states.
Didn’t Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?
Harris only had months of campaigning, while Trump had over a year. That alone put her at a massive disadvantage, since much of the vote is often decided (in people's minds) well before the elections.
But the reality is, as long as 50%+ are OK being in a cult run by an incoherent madman, they'll ignore the self-harm and keep voting the same way.
Democrats seem to consistently get record breaking funding from running aganst Trump, many are probably ecstatic they have four more years of free money from people who hate Trump.
If the left not voting leads to Democrats losing, you'd think the party would try to win those votes. Instead they campaign like they don't need them. And well, I guess.. the campaign advisors actually don't need them, they're gonna get hired to run the next campaign regardless. And the fat-cat donors are gonna stay rich regardless. Both ready to steer the next election!
It's always "the left" that's causing candidates to win by not voting, it's never candidates failing to give them something to vote for. Or advisors and donors pushing the candidates towards positions that will cost them the election. It's always "the left".
But hey, she got the Cheney's vote! And look, my swing state family's as well. But Democratic candidates and policies need to go big, or they're gonna keep being sent home. People voted for Trump for the same reason they voted for Obama - they absolutely want change, and 25K for a mortgage down payment ain't it.
People in 1932 also voted for change and boy did they got it.
They're not done counting. There's a decent chance he has more votes this time.
I don't wanna hear another damn word out of young, American leftists. They moralized, demanded, complained, and stayed home. Now shut the fuck up and enjoy the destruction of Gaza. Morons
Are you that stupid to think that 15 million non-voter were leftists?
Pew research allows that progressive are seven percent of the electorate and you actually believe that 15 million is all leftist?
Nah, there's millions of bog standard Democrats that didn't vote because 'reasons' here. Y'all put a quarter in your ass and played America.
Ironically if she'd chosen Shapiro as a running mate then she'd have had a better chance of holding PA. However reports at the time suggested she didn't want to risk upsetting the left by choosing a Jewish running mate.
Leftists wouldn't have voted for a capitalist regardless. She never had our vote to count. SHE opted to embrace war criminal Republicans, she opted to have a black man scold black men, she chose to have Clinton tell Muslim voters to suck it up and ignore that their family and friends were murdered while she helped steer the ship, she threw trans people under the bus.
Her loss is 100% hers to own. And because of her hubris trump won and got the popular vote.
Thanks COVID. You took our family members, forced us to have to "save the economy" causing inflation and now gave us a dictator. The gift that keeps on giving.
You must be living in an alternate universe. Your comment makes no sense.
A universe where inflation caused by a monetary injection to "save the economy" that becomes the gripe most people have to vote for Trump is an alternate universe? The headline literally says people voted for trump over the economy. The economy sucks for us because of inflation, caused by our reaction to COVID and the effects it had on supply chains...
COVID is not responsible for Trump's win. The electorate is.
As the article is stating "the economy is the biggest reason" people vote for Trump. The economy is bad for normal folks because of inflation, which was high in part because of corporate greed but also because of the major cash injection to "save the economy" through COVID.
Our (necessary) reaction to COVID set the conditions for Trump to fan the flames of peoples gripes.
Should of rigged the election, then Kamala would be the Queen.
All the dems had to do was run a Midwest guy to relate to people in the swing states to easily win the election. Instead, they chose an extremely unlikable Bay Area black woman to capture the rural vote in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Even her own party didn’t like her when she ran for president in 2020 and gave her 0 delegate votes.
It’s so fucking simple but democrats can’t help but shoot themselves and by proxy everyone else in the foot.
I’m not pissed at the ignorant rural voter, I’m pissed at the delusional and out of touch leaders in the Democratic Party who waited too long to find a replacement for Biden then chose the worst candidate to capture votes to do so.
Turns out you can't just tell people their lives are better when there lived experience disagrees.
I mean yeah, I agree with you, but I fail to see how what Trump promises improves any of the things that people said they care about during this election. Yes, shit's expensive everywhere right now. But deporting all the foreigners and installing punitive tariffs isn't going to fix it.
And do we really think the corporate tax cuts that are ensure to be coming will end up raising wages?
Trump can get away without campaigning on specifics, somehow.
This was a referendum on the status quo, and Harris ran on "more of the same".
You are trying to make this about Trump, but Trump wasn't in power over the previous four years.