Ya know what bugs me about the claim that it was all about the economy?

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3. It wasn't the economy. That was an excuse.

This isn't the first time in history that "economy" actually meant that they were not going to vote for a woman, especially a woman of color, no matter what. They will protect their white privilege and their male privilege at all costs. And they did. "Economy" is the fig leaf under which they hid their racism and misogyny. Because it's ignorant and ugly, and they don't want to be the ones to pay for it. They want the rest of us to pay for it. And we are going to pay. But they are, too.

I expect my entire life—the past 45-50 years and all I worked for—to amount to nothing. I will never see everything I paid into SS and Medicare; if I do, it will be cut in half or worse. Then, after struggling for a lifetime to get where I could finally retire (I was so excited about that), I may not be able to do so. I may have to work until they shove me out the door, and then I will be destitute.

Trump offered them comforting lies. He provided them with pablum that aligned with their ignorance, their racism, and their misogyny and gave them cover for it. The rest of us will pay for their ignorance and hate and they will too.

It wasn't the economy.

JoJoFromJerz explains it better than me:

https://bsky.app/profile/jojofromjerz.bsky.social/post/3lakaynxxvg26