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Originally Posted by you&me
This is the most ignorant thing I've read all night.
It's all well and good to sit back here and play armchair political QB, but I think you and everyone expecting a big blue wave are naive and vastly under (or over, depending on your perspective) estimating the motivations of the American people... When it comes down to those actually casting the votes, just as GullFoss said - it's the economy, stupid.
My business is almost entirely based in the US with American clients and customers from coast to coast that I speak to on a daily basis. The one thing they all have in common, when it really (really) comes down to it is that personal economic interest trumps (excuse the pun) ALL ELSE. USA! USA! USA!
I also find that the average citizen (can't say whether they're voters or not) is, at best, casually interested in politics and the details of what their elected leaders are doing on a day to day basis. The news cycle moves so fast, and their lives are otherwise so busy (or distracted) that they barely grasp the headlines, let alone have the patience (or attention span) to look any deeper.
What they do know is that employment is up, people are busy spending money and even if just by the seat of their pants, things in their day to day lives seem pretty good right now.
Racist remarks from the POTUS? Oh, that's in bad taste... but I can afford that new truck!
Children in cages? Eww, that's pretty bad... But they're not my kids & hey, I just got a new OLED TV, so things can't be that bad.
That is all this comes down to. Basically it's marketing... Whether true or not or even demonstrably false, the Republicans are branded as the 'good economy' party. And when things seem to be good, no matter what else is going on, people's self interest and ignorance means no one wants the party to stop.
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I never said it wasn't about the economy. Your ignorance is that fact that you want to defend the idea that Trump "saved" anything. Every economic indicator that Gullfoss pointed too is either on the exact same best fit line as Obama or is actually flattening out since Trump took over.
The best Trump has done is not mess up the economy that Obama has left him. Nothing he has done has shown any more positive results than was already being accomplished under Obama. The average Joe has seen wage increases for the past decade. Hours have been improving. Consumer confidence is growing at the exact same rate as Obama left it. There isn't a singe economic indication that Trump has been responsible for anything different than he was left with.
The ignorance of the pro-Trump, is that you believe he is responsible for "turning around" an economy that was already operating with a lot of steam and strength.
I won't argue that you can forget everything else and focus on the economy. But the true ignorance is to believe that Trump is doing any better economically than his predecessor.