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TrollBuster9090

(6,043 posts)
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 01:21 AM Nov 2024

Paul "Nostradamus" Krugman Nailed it Eight Years Ago. It's NOT The Economy, Stupid. [View all]

It's racial identity. The fear of caucasians (of which I'm one) that they will become a minority. However, we've been saying for generations that minorities are well treated in America. Even saying they're preferentially treated with quotas and reverse discrimination (Thank you, Frank Luntz!) If true, there should be no fear of us becoming the largest minority in a cultural mosaic. So, it's clearly not true.

But Krugman's point explains elegantly why the economy couldn't possibly have been better in 2024, and yet, so many people were receptive to the propaganda lie that the economy was terrible. The GOP, and its scion, Trump created a false economic permission structure through which to funnel their basest instincts.


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