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So what are you referring to, then? Inflation-adjusted wage growth?

Purchasing power, which was not shit in the 90s compared to today. That’s what really matters; what can you get with the money you have.

You’re ascribing way too much rationality to the average voter here.

I think you’re ascribing too little. The average voter is not a political philosopher, but they’re also not comatose. They understand simple economic principles like tax cuts being given to other and not to them, or subsidies for certain industries and not others, or the lack of government action to curb rising prices, etc. They may not have all the proper labels to describe what they’re seeing vs what they want to see (and indeed, the US has spent so long demonizing Socialism and propagandizing Capitalism that most can’t describe either properly), but polling proves that most Americans (hilariously, even most Republicans) don’t want cutthroat neoliberal everyone-for-themselves economic policies.

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

but polling proves that most Americans (hilariously, even most Republicans) don’t want cutthroat neoliberal everyone-for-themselves economic policies.

Yes, but what if you repackage austerity as “patriotic manly tax cuts”?

Look, sales so isn’t my department, but I’ve been far enough down this path to know bullshit dominates politics because bullshit works. It’s fueled by apathy much more than actual stupidity, but comatose isn’t far off of what the average door knock feels like.

I think that Trump would love to install himself as a dictator, and maybe he will, but even dictators keep controlled elections going for the appearance of legitimacy. He’s already 78, and no other Republicans have managed to replicate his popularity among GOP voters. One way or another (unless the US government literally dissolves, which is my preference tbh) we’ll be dealing with a post-Trump US government sooner or later.

Yes, post-Trump will be “interesting” for sure. I’d be mildly surprised if everything went back to normal, though, because it was just so broken before, and there’s so many alternative trajectories available.

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