And still is. MSNBC, CNN, ABC, The Post, the NY Times, the AP. On and on. It was just a deluge of articles about the "bad economy" when the reality is that the economy was better under Biden than Trump, even with inflation it was easily better. And if you happened to be a low wage worker, it was way way better. Low wage workers saw the biggest gains, They saw massive gains in wages, gains in savings, and gains in the ability to deal with an emergency financially.
And the anger it ginned up even here on DU was palpable. Some poll came out in early 2024 that said, "69% of Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck!!!" I read the article and noticed it didn't say if that was higher than before or lower than before, so I looked at the poll itself, then saw they had done the poll a few years before under Trump, you guessed it, it was much higher under Trump, like 82% of people under Trump said they were living paycheck to paycheck. When I showed my work and posted that fact I got accused of ignoring the less fortunate and being cold hearted to the many who are suffering. Forget that that is a bogus poll question to even ask as it's a loaded one, all I was doing was showing what that poll previously said.
I polled people here on DU if they were doing better financially, and it was a large and overwhelming response that like 80% of DUers were doing better financially under Biden, like 15% were doing the same, and just a few % doing worse. So why didn't we post like it? Why were there so many posts about how "The Dems message is failing bcause they aren't addressing the suffering of the working class!!!" It didn't add up, until you understood the propaganda. Propaganda can work on all groups, regardless of reality, regardless of their individual experiences, and regardless educations and intelligence. Anecdotes or partial evidence became more important than the actual data because they followed the propaganda that was flowing.
Working people are never going to have it as good in this country again as they had it under Biden, never! From here on out it's going to be a steady stream of data, lower wages, higher costs, less security, less rights for workers, less heatlh care, less for your children, less for the schools, more for the rich. That's what we'll see unabated now, and people still won't even recognize how good things were under Biden.
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