A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.

It was heartening to see a couple of polls come out recently showing that, for the first time in a long time, Americans trust the Democrats more than the Republicans on the economy. It’s insane that this can come as a surprise, and that these two parties are even running as close to one another as they are is absurd. Trusting the Republicans more on the economy at this point is like trusting Sean Combs to be your babysitter.

For decades now, the Republican Party has built its electoral success on myths and lies. Ronald Reagan was the last Republican president who your average person would say left the country better off than he found it. I wouldn’t say that, for a range of ideological reasons, but I’m a liberal. I’m ready to admit, however, that your average person would say that about him.

But that’s a long, long time ago now. You have to be in your fifties at least to have any memory of it. But the last three Republican presidents—Bush, Bush, and Trump—have been disasters.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    11 days ago

    Let me guess, Trump’s support is still hovering between 35%-40% but took a .0000001% dip so the bots are churning out bullshit articles again?

    Edit: yup. Why do hundreds of people keep upvoting this slop garbage?

  • fodor@lemmy.zip
    5·
    11 days ago

    Yes I totally agree. And also the Dems have done jack shit for decades. Corporate interests dominate. So people vote for reform candidates a lot, because, as they say, “the status quo is not … quo”.

    And it still matters. Voting for Trump was never reasonable. They did fuck us all over. But I understand why people make bad desperation choices.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 days ago

    The GOP is going to have to touch the electric fence to shake the 35% who will vote for them no matter what. The electric fence is taking away social security and Medicare, ironically socialism for some (mostly trump) voters paid for by working age (mostly not trump) voters. I have faith that they are dumb enough though

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    Hah! Reagon is directly responsible for the homeless problem in our country. He removed restrictions on wall street and many other regulatory rules. He was the genesis of this morass we find ourselves in. #

    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
      5·
      12 days ago

      You can say that about so many other deflection points in the recent past too. For instance if Nixon had been prosecuted and served time, Trump wouldn’t be breaking laws with impunity and likely wouldn’t be president. If SCOTUS hadn’t stopped the recount in Florida, Gore would have won and Dubya would be a historical footnote instead of having caused of a war based on fraudulent evidence and then an economic crash. I can think of a half-dozen more off the top of my head. The GOP has been a disaster for this country for decades.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        Don’t forget reagan committed treason with the iranians twice. He did a deal with them that kept those hostages until he took office. Then he did Iran Contra which was nothing more than a attempt to destabilize Nicaragua.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_legislation

        Led to the destruction of public banking for individuals.

        https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/did-reagan-defund-mental-healthor

        Jimmy carter tried to fix it and reagon killed it out of spite.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine

        Destroyed the media by allowing completely biased fake new like fox news.

        https://www.economic-historian.com/p/reagans-neoliberal-policies

        Started the rot of deregulation that has infested the entire economy to the point that there are no checks and balances stopping the corruption that has festered with trump. Trump is just a tool. He doesn’t think he is but he nothing more than a tool.

        Don’t forget Trickle down Economics. What a joke.

        There are other things that POS did but when you look at the start of our modern decline it starts with reagan.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          I don’t know if this is just an oversight or I’m reading it wrong, but both Glass-Steagall and the Fairness Doctrine were arguably excellent pieces of legislation, and it was their repeal that acted against public interest.

          I’d give anything to have them back, along with the repeal of EVERYTHING in law that says corporations = people, usually for the purpose of unfairly extending constitutional protections to them.

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            Reagan was against the public interest. His interference resulted in their repeal. Even with trump in the mix reagan is still the worst president we have ever had IMO. Trump couldn’t exist except for that D list actor and the destruction he brought to this country.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    It literally doesnt matter, if they decide to forgo their constitutional right to vote. Americans are a special bunch of stoopid.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I’m skeptical. That ~33-36% of remaining hard right voters are so into the weeds with their emotional investment that I doubt they will ever reach a moral or pragmatic epiphany. They have proven time and again they will do Olympic-level mental gymnastics to avoid “their side” taking any blame. And no amount of heinous acts from their cult leaders will sway them.

    But even if, by some miracle, a few % of them do wake the fuck up to reality, it’s a sad statement that it took this much to do it. It will have taken the economy tanking, cost of living trauma, turning on our allies, idiotic tariff recriminations, a pointless war and the murders/losses therein, environmental catastrophe, the imprisonment or deportation of their own friends/loved ones, countless new sex scandals from their leaders, incessant dodging of existing leadership sex scandals (cough The Epstein Files! cough), children dying domestically in various tragic ways (school shootings, preventable diseases, etc), police/ICE brutality of innocent people, tainted food fiascos, etc etc etc… to open their eyes.

    And the country (and world) in chaos is a fucking hard price to pay for a small proportion of loyal hardcore GOP voters finally smelling the roses.

    They frequently drone on about the ‘woke mind virus’. Yet again it’s just projection. The real ‘mind virus’ is the one fucking up their heads, and by extension fucking up the world.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      My parents have moved from defending Trump to saying “I don’t want to talk about it”. They still have some bullshit ill-defined excuses not to vote Democrat, though.

      They don’t yet understand that the word for Germans who didn’t like Hitler but couldn’t bring themselves to support the opposition was still " Nazi."

    • wyrmkeeper@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 days ago

      I’m convinced that they’ve met the edge of their biological intellect and asking anything more of them is akin to asking an ant to solve 2+2. Its just not going to happen.