“Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.” – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I guess, for her, these are dark times.
I saw a graph last week from the New York Times®. The graph showed the views of the economy based on political party – people of the GloboLeft thought that the economy during Trump’s years in office wasn’t great and got worse every year until it fell off the COVID cliff. Their view of the economy changed as soon as Mumbly Joe got into office. Things were aLL bEtTeR NoW! Oh, sure, not as good as they were when Obama was in office, but better than the average of the Trump years.
When looking at the Trump supporter numbers, it was the exact opposite, the economy had gotten better during Trump’s time in the chair, until the COVID cliff, but bounced back but had dropped off of that same COVID cliff.
When Biden got into office, if not a little earlier, the economy cratered for people on the TradRight, and has been in the gutter since then.
The takeaway from the Times™ is: “Republicans react much more strongly to a president from the opposite party than Democrats do. That disproportionately affects the national mood during this Democratic administration.”
Probably the most important part of this graph is the why axis.
I’ll admit there is certainly bound to be component of that, but by any reasonable stretch of the imagination, the economy was much better under Trump than under Brandon. I think the analysis by the Times© is myopic and doo-doo headed (that’s a technical term).
The Times© is missing the point that Biden voters are not at all the same as Trump voters. Biden voters (the actual living ones), by far, make more use of public assistance than Trump voters. Any move or perception of a move that the gravy train of cash and prizes for just breathing and eating Hot Pockets™ is going away is going to cause unease.
Since they are the consumers of things that illegals create more than Trump voters, any tightening of the border lowers the number of people to be Squatamalan nannies or gardeners and makes the “raise the minimum wage” crowd have to pay more.
The horror!
You might not think it’s a lie that there is worse than Biden. The Canadians know it’s True-deau.
Lastly, a Trump administration will slow the growth of federal and state local jobs, as the gravy train is slowed, and as the regulations that spawn new regulatory jobs are strangled.
But what bout the Trump voters, are they delusional?
No, they own small businesses, and when profits are up, they’re happy. And they don’t have bright green hair. They’re homeowners instead of renters, so when interest rates are low, they can afford more house. They don’t live in the urban hellholes so gasoline prices are much more important to them than they would be to the average Biden voter who lives in the core urban Bluetopia of some place like Detroit or Atlanta or Baltimore.
Things were better in the burbs, and better for families, and better for people who had to get up in the morning to make the doughnuts and keep civilization moving. Oh, and the shutdown of the illegal pipeline raised their wages – lower labor availability raises wages.
Give a man a pizza and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to make a pizza and he will work for minimum wage.
Who doesn’t like increasing wages? The GloboLeftElite, that’s who. They don’t like higher wages because higher wages mean decreased profit. It’s odd that they end up having more money that they could ever spend, so it’s not the cash. Again, it’s the concentrated power that money brings.
And concentrated power is equivalent to the ability to reward. Or punish.
So, no, New York Times, Republicans are actually hurt by the economy. And it’s likely on purpose.
And, since actual intact nuclear families are overwhelmingly for Trump, this leads to the next problem – if the conditions are bad for a family, imagine the problems that causes for the most important segment of our population:
Young men who want nothing more than a traditional, Norman Rockwell marriage with a wife, a car, 2 or 3 kids, and a home that they own. That’s the desire.
The Hapsburgs had faces only a cousin could love.
The reality is that this dream is slipping away. I think kids are losing ground every year. Houses are more expensive, cars are more expensive to own and insure, and marriage costs more. The situation is horrible compared to the early 1970s, when a manufacturing job could support a Norman Rockwell family. Pay has stayed down due to the massive influx of cheap immigrant labor, whether that immigrant labor is here or in Vietnam.
Free trade means that we can be miserable on a race to the bottom for labor costs. And mom and pop stores, as inefficient as they may have been, mainly kept the profits of their stores in town. As the Walmartization™ of the rural economy continues, the guy who used to own the butcher store is now the guy at the meat counter, and the real butcher is hundreds of miles away in a meatpacking house, and is probably an illegal alien.
What was once a great middle-class life is now replaced as the GloboLeftElite search for yet more power.
The kicker is that the big key to a young man having a family, women, are more elusive every year having been propagandized into a dozen or more years of increasingly desperate and meaningless sex followed by desperation to find a “worthy” man as they enter their 30s and decide they want a kid.
Is that meme thot provoking?
So, guys check out. They’ve got weed, booze, and video games. When there aren’t women worth having, there won’t be men working to make themselves worthwhile. Why are there no good young men? There aren’t any good women worth chasing.
This leads to unrest in young men, and a misery in the population of people that are the real spark plugs of an economy, destruction of the middle class?
As usual, the New York Times® misses the big picture – the misery is real. And they don’t care.
