The US is just baffling to me, working class people prefer Trump, a wealthy businessman (from the perspective of his voters/supporters) over Biden who is the most pro-union president in a long time.
It’s also crazy that the strategy of steering the slow-to-turn oil tanker that is the US economy towards a cliff during your turn as president and then chastise your opponent who takes over for damaging the tanker while desperately trying to navigate away from the cliff works cycle after cycle. Reagan, both Bushes and Trump are all guilty of racking up the defecit (with control of both houses and the presidency) while screaming fiscal responsibility and making sure that any collision will happen when they’re not in power or when they’re soon to lose it so the aftermath can be blamed on the Dems.
That’s because Republicans are masters at marketing a message that connects with average folks. They are absolutely terrible for those folks, but as you pointed out, the US economy is so massive, it takes time for legislation passed today to actually affect people in hometown America. So while Republicans are great at pretending they are all blue collar folks, Democrats are absolutely inept at explaining their policies to regular people. All those regular people see a bunch of Democratic lawmakers wasting their resources on teeny, tiny fringe groups. So regular people who represent large voting blocs that can get politicians elected watch this on the news and wonder when are Demcrats going to pay attention to their problems.
At my last company, we had a TV in the break room that was tuned to the news. Mind you, it wasn’t Fox News or any obvious garbage like that. I vividly remember seeing reports on the news on how all these Democratic politicians were spending all this time helping DACA people. They would promise them Healthcare and free education. I could hear my coworkers mumble to themselves. They just had to send in a fat check to their kid’s college to pay for classes while these DACA people were being promised free education. Regardless of of these coworkers supported the DACA folks or not, it just doesn’t look good to average voters when they are scraping together a tuition payment and the elected officials you helped get into office are telling these people who aren’t even citizens. It’s very tone-deaf when the masses have the same or similar problems and yet onky these fringe groups get visible attention from Democrats. And this is but one example of many similar instances which really help solidify the image thag Dems are out of touch, even if that isn’t true. In politics, image is more important than just about anything else.
Your example just further highlights the stuff I’m so baffled by, how can someone be mad about a nation of 300 million supporting less than 100 thousand KIDS. And AFAIK they never got free tuition, they just got access to scholarships and got to pay the instate fee even if out of state. Helpful sure but far from a free ride. And even further if they don’t get education their life time earnings will be lower and thus also the tax they pay. Money spent on kids and their education gets repaid in taxes several times over in general. And further if no education or prospects exist crime is the only way to not fucking starve if you’re undocumented. It’s shortsighted to a level that is either wilfull or the manipulation / brain washing is just to a level that I as an outsider can’t comprehend.
And then the fucking icing on the cake is what is then Republicans proposing? It sure as shit isn’t reduced tuition, tuition caps or tax credits to help offset tuition costs or anything. It’s just focus on some sick, mildly racist angle of “look at Dems caring about non-Americans more than Americans!” and then pocket all the money themselves.
At least the Dems are doing something aside from fucking over the average American and putting money in the pockets of the already rich.
The US is just baffling to me, working class people prefer Trump, a wealthy businessman (from the perspective of his voters/supporters) over Biden who is the most pro-union president in a long time.
It’s also crazy that the strategy of steering the slow-to-turn oil tanker that is the US economy towards a cliff during your turn as president and then chastise your opponent who takes over for damaging the tanker while desperately trying to navigate away from the cliff works cycle after cycle. Reagan, both Bushes and Trump are all guilty of racking up the defecit (with control of both houses and the presidency) while screaming fiscal responsibility and making sure that any collision will happen when they’re not in power or when they’re soon to lose it so the aftermath can be blamed on the Dems.
That’s because Republicans are masters at marketing a message that connects with average folks. They are absolutely terrible for those folks, but as you pointed out, the US economy is so massive, it takes time for legislation passed today to actually affect people in hometown America. So while Republicans are great at pretending they are all blue collar folks, Democrats are absolutely inept at explaining their policies to regular people. All those regular people see a bunch of Democratic lawmakers wasting their resources on teeny, tiny fringe groups. So regular people who represent large voting blocs that can get politicians elected watch this on the news and wonder when are Demcrats going to pay attention to their problems.
At my last company, we had a TV in the break room that was tuned to the news. Mind you, it wasn’t Fox News or any obvious garbage like that. I vividly remember seeing reports on the news on how all these Democratic politicians were spending all this time helping DACA people. They would promise them Healthcare and free education. I could hear my coworkers mumble to themselves. They just had to send in a fat check to their kid’s college to pay for classes while these DACA people were being promised free education. Regardless of of these coworkers supported the DACA folks or not, it just doesn’t look good to average voters when they are scraping together a tuition payment and the elected officials you helped get into office are telling these people who aren’t even citizens. It’s very tone-deaf when the masses have the same or similar problems and yet onky these fringe groups get visible attention from Democrats. And this is but one example of many similar instances which really help solidify the image thag Dems are out of touch, even if that isn’t true. In politics, image is more important than just about anything else.
Your example just further highlights the stuff I’m so baffled by, how can someone be mad about a nation of 300 million supporting less than 100 thousand KIDS. And AFAIK they never got free tuition, they just got access to scholarships and got to pay the instate fee even if out of state. Helpful sure but far from a free ride. And even further if they don’t get education their life time earnings will be lower and thus also the tax they pay. Money spent on kids and their education gets repaid in taxes several times over in general. And further if no education or prospects exist crime is the only way to not fucking starve if you’re undocumented. It’s shortsighted to a level that is either wilfull or the manipulation / brain washing is just to a level that I as an outsider can’t comprehend.
And then the fucking icing on the cake is what is then Republicans proposing? It sure as shit isn’t reduced tuition, tuition caps or tax credits to help offset tuition costs or anything. It’s just focus on some sick, mildly racist angle of “look at Dems caring about non-Americans more than Americans!” and then pocket all the money themselves.
At least the Dems are doing something aside from fucking over the average American and putting money in the pockets of the already rich.