Is There Hope?
Is There Hope?
Understanding the impact of the election results: analyzing the consequences and strategizing for a positive future.
No, this was our last chance to fix the climate. Among the infinite amounts of problems we now face. No matter what wild regime we are under at the end of this four years will have 25 years at max to conquer, pillage, and rape before the climate ends it all. We're fucked.
The economy right now is doing very well...
And yet the economy, and people's fears about it, were the main reason Trump won. Until liberal elites like this guy get it through their thick fucking skulls that how the majority of people FEEL about the economy is INFINITELY more important than what the economic indicators say, they will continue to lose. If people tell you they don't feel good about the state of the economy, believe them. Don't ignore them, don't wave them off, don't dismiss them as ignorant morons, believe them and listen to them.
And how do you explain to someone that how they "feel" about the economy is factually wrong? That all indicators show a healthy economy that has mostly recovered to pre-COVID levels of production, inflation is a global (not US localized) event, and even accounting for greedflation wages and purchasing power were up compared to the last 20 years?
You can't. The same way you can't tell them that the government isn't doing free sex change operations on prisoners or that children aren't pissing in litter boxes in school- they want to believe those things are true, because their authority figures have told them those things are true. The second you point out that the US has had significantly less inflation than other countries because of what the Fed did, or that the record-high stock market and low unemployment rates indicate an economy that is expanding, or that there's been a severe bird-flu outbreak that has impacted chicken and egg stocks which in turn has increased their prices, you get called a "liberal elite" who doesn't care about how Joe Q. Flyover feels about his grocery bill.
So the Joe Q. Flyover votes to give power to the asshole oligarchs who caused this whole mess in the first place, because he "feels" that they do better on the nebulous "economy".
"People are stupid; they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true."
And how do you explain to someone that how they "feel" about the economy is factually wrong?
There is no such thing as a factually wrong feeling. This is everything that's wrong with the liberal elites. The people say they don't feel great about things and the elites simply look down their nose at them and say, "you're factually wrong."
all indicators show a healthy economy
Fuck.Your.Indicators.
If a majority of people don't FEEL like the economy is doing well, then it's not doing well. Period.
And yet the economy, and people’s fears about it, were the main reason Trump won. Until liberal elites like this guy get it through their thick fucking skulls that how the majority of people FEEL about the economy is INFINITELY more important than what the economic indicators say,
I cannot stress how true this is, and it's something I've been saying for years.
If you are in an election, and your opponent is saying that monkeys are flying out of your ass and terrorizing the city, logic tells you you should ignore his crazy antics and tell him to go back to the park and preach to the pigeons. But here's the problem. If 51% of the people you need to vote for you believe that monkeys flying out of your ass is their #1 problem, you had better come up with a plan to handle monkeys flying out of your ass. I mean sure, you can try using logic and reasoning to say "Look, there are no flying monkeys coming out of my ass and not a single one has been seen in the city." But if those 51% really believe in flying monkeys, you'll be using that logic during your concession speech.
It's one of those situations where you can do everything right and just lose anyway. Kamala Harris just found that out the hard way.
It wasn’t a landslide, but we can’t minimize the fact that it was a real setback.
Uh, what? That was the worst possible outcome of all the outcomes...I don't know what other word than "Landslide" is appropriate there.
We should all be happy to see tens of millions of workers sharing in the gains of faster productivity growth.
Yes yes...enjoy not being paid overtime, praying your next customer tips you, and instant bankruptcy if you get sick at work. Oh...and don't worry about retiring, you can't afford it.
America doesn't really have landslides.
It was a ratio of 68 to 73, with low voter turnout. 100% not a landslide. Anything less than a ratio of...I don't know, 50 to 70? doesn't really deserve the term. And that's generous.
Yes because it's not done yet. There's fuckery happening. We just discovered that our votes haven't been counted even though we voted in person and early. We've lived in the US our entire lives and our ballots got challenged. There are others also saying theirs wasn't counted.
DDFH