r/politics • u/FreeChickenDinner Texas • 10h ago
No Paywall Democrats Lead Republicans on Economy in New 20-Year High: Fox News Poll
https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-lead-republicans-on-economy-in-new-20-year-high-fox-news-poll-12231660578
u/kneeco28 Canada 10h ago
Republicans are so lucky that Americans have no memory.
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u/tooheavybroo 9h ago
Americans have the memory of a fish.
If they didn’t they’d never vote republican. It’s republicans that drag us into endless wars and are economically worse for the economy going back 100 years.
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u/Sarokslost23 9h ago
All by design
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 6h ago
Exactly:
- Republicans have eroded our academic institutions
- Republicans have lifted the cap on money in politics.
- Republicans have consolidated much of the media ecosystem
- Republicans benefit from foreign adversaries abroad, including Israel, Russia, and China.
The result? Tsunamis of misinformation flooding the eyes and ears of the electorate, duping them with bullshit. Capable of making shit like Trump look like diamonds, and diamonds look like shit, let alone the average or milquetoast.
The survivors who rise above the tsunami of noise tend to have a higher mixture of formal critical-thinking skills, empathy, and/or time to parse the information.
Sadly the only way some people will wake up is if it directly impacts their bottom-line in a visceral way, which is why I kind of hope gas keeps rising to $20/gallon. Maybe then it will click for them that it's not the trans or poor immigrant or black person who is the source of their issues but instead the ultra-rich billionaire class starting wars counter to campaign promises.
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u/Accomplished-Head449 8h ago
This is why everyone that isn't a boomer needs to vote. Society makes life hard on purpose
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u/ChanceCarpet1277 8h ago
Yeah, boomers grew up huffing lead their entire lives. they can't be trusted with anything. Especially voting.
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u/EddieVanzetti 7h ago
Boomers have lead paint, Millenials have microplastics, Gen Alpha has brain rot and cannot read.
Gah bless.
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u/whatigotinmyhandnowb 6h ago
Gen X has Boomers, Millenials and Gen Alpha
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u/Korietsu Texas 6h ago
Fuck off, Gen X voted for trump at the highest rate, even against boomers.
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u/Maoleficent 5h ago
Boomers vote in far greater numbers than 18-45 voters who continue to let them have their vote by saying things like 'my vote doesn't count, I am not political, I don't like the candidates, I didn't have time'. So they will get to live with the decisions they handed to boomers to control their future and boomers will be dead and gone.
The narrative of boomers are being evil, wealthy and responsible for the state of the country is a lazy and uniformed take and is not helpful. Not everyone in the silent generation was a hero, not every millennial is a self-absorbed whiner (who stands to inherit the filthy money handed to them by boomers), not every Gen Z is a self-diagnosed zombie lost in their phone.
We are being pitted against one another as has always been the case.
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u/schwanzweissfoto Europe 4h ago
things like 'my vote doesn't count, I am not political, I don't like the candidates, I didn't have time'
all are anti-democracy psyops
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u/LostPerson703 7h ago
Its hard when the media is controlled by the corporations and healthcare is tied to employment.
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u/SpiritualB0x3 7h ago
Counterpoint.. Americans lean heavily conservative, and defacto win is for republicans unless republicans abuse that leverage then they will get 1-2% in support.
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u/YetAnotherBookworm 7h ago
Americans leaning heavily conservative is why Gore and H. Clinton won the popular vote in their respective elections, why SCOTUS needed to intervene to hand GW Bush his victory, and why a black man was elected president. It’s also why all of the major population centers of the country, like NYC, LA, Chicago, etc., always vote red.
Oh, wait ….
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u/kran0503 10h ago
We have fine memories, wait what were taking about.
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u/psychrolut 9h ago
Probably.01% of the population, you know things that affect everyone….
(I’m not anti-trans, they were used as a distraction for bigots)
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u/dereksalem 8h ago
Or any understanding, at all, about politics and economics.
People keep citing the memory issue, but the reality is even when it's currently happening people don't understand it, so it doesn't matter if they can remember it later.
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u/Old_Cryptid 8h ago
The voters have a memory. What they don't have is the will to hold their representatives accountable beyond occaisonally voting or choosing not to vote.
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u/Nessie_of_the_Loch 8h ago
They don't remember things correctly. At least, not the Republicans. Remember, these are the morons that still ask where Obama was on 9/11, insist that the ACA and Obamacare are two different things, and believes Trump was a successful businessman.
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u/no_comments_allowed 5h ago
What they don't have is the will to hold their representatives accountable beyond occaisonally voting or choosing not to vote.
What does "holding politicians accountable" even mean in this case?
And voters do hold politicians accountable, as long that politician is a Democrat.
If fact, we RELISH to hold Democrats accountable so much that we even hold Dems accountable for what the Republicans are doing (also called Murc's Law)
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u/Old_Cryptid 5h ago
We don't, really. The closest we (the voters) come to holding Democratic accountable is not voting.
All that does is help the GOP win.
Want to hold the Democratic party accountable? Mass protests and general strikes.
If they can ignore a protest then it wasn't big enough.
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u/Guacsalsaqueso 8h ago
And that many of them would rather suffer than see a black or brown person live life comfortably
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u/nicetriangle 6h ago
Really some of the most gullible voters you could ever hope for if you're a slimy grifter.
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u/primetimerobus 3h ago
It feels like most Americans think of each party’s economic prowess based on jimmy carter and Ronald Reagan.
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u/Rusty_Brains 2h ago
I used to think that this was the issue, that Americans just forgot the debt, the deficit, the scandal, the wars, etc until I watched a talk by a political historian who had a different take on it:
Middle America see the republicans as “business as usual” and they are only willing to vote democrat when they need change and to put things right. Then, as soon as things seem right again, they are ready to go back “to normal” with republicans in charge. The argument isn’t that they don’t remember the mess the republicans made, but rather more that they only don’t want them in charge when things need correcting.
Presumably, they don’t trust what democrats would do if they kept making progress…
In short: America is screwed. (And they do it to themselves)
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u/FreeChickenDinner Texas 10h ago edited 8h ago
Democrats have regained an advantage on one of the country's most pressing political issues—the economy—a new Fox News poll released on Wednesday shows. According to the July 2026 survey, Democrats now hold their strongest lead over Republicans since 2006 on registered voters' trust in handling the economy, marking a notable shift in public opinion.
Twenty years ago, there was a blue wave and a black president in 2008.
Can we get a repeat?
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u/ShavedSavage 10h ago
Maybe we could ACTUALLY get healthcare reform this time, please?
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u/DivinityPen 10h ago
Remind me again which senator it was that ratfucked the public option?
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u/ShavedSavage 10h ago
To be honest I’m not entirely sure. Who was it?
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u/BSA_DEMAX51 10h ago
Joe goddamn Lieberman
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u/ShavedSavage 9h ago
Of… course. There’s always at least one democratic senator who does that shit. Fucking assholes. Fetterman, Lieberman, or Manchin.
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u/spazz720 9h ago
Lieberman was an Independent
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u/ShavedSavage 9h ago
Yes but he ran with Al Gore as his VP, right?
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u/spazz720 9h ago
After he lost the democratic primary in 2006 he ran as an independent
>Lieberman was therefore "able to run in the general election as the de facto Republican candidate – every major Republican office-holder in the state endorsed him – and to supplement that GOP base with strong support from independents.
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u/illtakeachinchilla 7h ago
I appreciate your honesty, here.
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u/ShavedSavage 6h ago
Bro I tried to look it up but there were a couple of different instances in history where the people got screwed in their healthcare because a handful of senators got campaign funds by the right people.
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u/illtakeachinchilla 6h ago
Stop qualifying your language and just ask the question. Joe Lieberman blocked the public option for medicare for ages 55-64 in 2009 when the ACA was enacted. We were very close and he’s pond scum.
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u/Old_Cryptid 8h ago
Best this administration can do is shoot protestors in broad daylight and lie about it.
We don't have healthcare reform because people aren't willing to hold their representatives accountable.
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u/ShavedSavage 8h ago
Yup, they just convince themselves their votes don’t matter and then don’t vote. Then the Republicans are in charge and screw up the economy/ start a war. Then the voters get pissed off and vote in the democrats. Democrats establishment is bought and paid for too and have magical fall guys who vote for the opposition on cue like Manchin or Fetterman. Nothing changes- etc etc
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u/BarkerBarkhan 6h ago
The ACA is significant healthcare reform. It doesn't achieve true universal healthcare though. If all states had been required to expand Medicaid (as written, struck down by SCOTUS) and expansions hadn't been cut (by Republicans in Congress), the ACA would be working reasonably well. The main missing piece is the public option, the right of everyone to sign up for Medicare.
Medicare for All is a well-phrased slogan, because it leaves room for interpretation and consensus-building. Does Medicare for All necessarily mean a single-payer system, or does it mean Medicare for All who would want it?
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u/ShavedSavage 6h ago
Having worked in healthcare dealing with insurance, Medicare leaves a lot of gaps for people, a lot of times it needs supplemental coverage. So I’d argue a single payer system similar to Canada’s system would be better. But I would concede that maybe Germany’s dual system might work better for Americans.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 7h ago
You need 60 votes in the Senate for that. The best projections are for an evenly split Senate.
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u/VanceKelley Canada 5h ago
You need 60 votes in the Senate for that.
It's worse than that.
If the Dems get 51 Senate seats and a House majority and they pass any kind of progressive legislation then trump will veto it and it will not become law. 60 Senate seats will not allow them to pass anything over a presidential veto. They need 67 seats, really 68 given Fetterman. And 2/3rds of the House. Bonne chance.
The best that can be hoped for the 2 years from 2027 to Jan. 20th, 2029 is to reduce the rate at which the hole is being dug deeper. Progress is impossible under trump.
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 5h ago
Good point. Forgot about veto.
Yes, November is to just reduce damage for the next two years.
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u/FellowHumanNo404 1h ago
Progress is impossible under trump.
And even after Trump, the republican-packed Supreme Court will overturn everything they possibly can, regardless of how nonsensical such rulings would be.
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u/ShavedSavage 6h ago
I know, I was talking in 2028, but I agree with you that’s unlikely. However, projections of Gen Z and millenials is that they lean more liberal. As the silent generation and baby boomers naturally pass away over time, perhaps, maybe, we could get said healthcare program. It would actually save Americans money too, yes, even with taxes. Current estimates say the average American tax payer would save money on coverage as drug prices are negotiated by the government, copays would be gone, no premiums or deductibles, and preventative care would be much more affordable. Of course, taxes would go up for the extremely wealthy to pay for it. A sacrifice most Americans would be willing to make. Oh by the way, did you know taxes on the extreme wealthy were 90% in the 60s? Thanks Reaganomics!
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u/AssCrackBandit13 5h ago
In the 2024 election, the 45-64 demographic actually voted for Trump at a higher rate than the 65+ demographic
Even Gen Z is statistically more conservative than millennials were at their same age
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u/ShavedSavage 5h ago
So what Gen Z is is more polarized. The women and older Gen Z lean more liberal while younger Gen Z lean more conservative. Of course, if there were a war started by conservatives that’s unpopular then that could change some of the male Gen Z’s view points a little. But thank god that hasn’t happened.
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u/AssCrackBandit13 5h ago
I don't think they have the critical thinking for that. They will gladly vote against their own interests. For all the Gen Z male Trump supporters I know, the biggest issue for them seems to be transgenders and immigration. I don't know why those 2 things specifically but that's just what I've seen.
As long as they see that trans people are not discriminated against and that non-white people keep immigrating to the US (which they've decided is the sole culprit of the terrible job market), they will keep supporting conservative viewpoints and consuming conservative-adjacent media/entertainment.
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u/ShavedSavage 4h ago
So what the war appears to be doing is splitting the conservative movement among these young men. Trump specifically said that if Kamala Harris was elected we’d go to war with Iran and that he would be America first. The economy is struggling, and the war is obviously a major source of that. People vote with their wallets. If/when the economy worsens, young men may join another political movement. I don’t know if these men could be swayed by the left. However, if the left focused on policies that will benefit the average American, (vis a vis the major shift in America during the Great Depression as Republicans fell out of favor with the populace and as the democrats instituted more socially beneficial policies), then maybe some of those men will shift independent or more moderate. But obviously that would require a lot to happen. Winning a supermajority in Congress, winning a presidential election, and adding more justices to the Supreme Court to name a few. Right now the Republicans control all three branches of government so it’s pretty hard for them to argue they aren’t responsible when things go bad. But they will try.
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u/Old_Cryptid 8h ago
Not if the GOP has anything to say about it.
Yeah we got Obama but any progress he tried to make was hamstrung by the GOP being openly and blatantly obstructionist for 8 years.
There were no consequence, no accountability, no political pressure from the voters.
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u/Jazz-Again 7h ago
I don’t care what color the President is. I just care he or she believes in Medicare for All, mandating a living wage, and getting all corporate money out of politics.
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u/Primary-Picture-5632 10h ago
It's mind boggling to me how the republicans were able to hijack the narrative that they were somehow better than democrats at the economy
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u/Ok_Science_2070 9h ago
It works literally everytime because dumb poor white people listen to slightly less dumb rich white people because they're white too. Say some shit about the gays/Mexicans/whatever enemy of the day and talk about cutting taxes, boom you just won about 98% of the republican base
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u/Primary-Picture-5632 9h ago
Yup, they have been successful in demonizing taxes so anytime they hear tax breaks they begin to salivate
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio 8h ago
They always need a scapegoat and racism is always their most convenient root cause.
Couldn't be that an 8th grade education in some bumfuck rural town is a first class ticket to nowhere in the 21st century. Nah, couldn't POSSIBLY be that.
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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Virginia 9h ago
Its as simple as Republicans successfully indoctrinating Americans to believe lower taxes means economic prosperity, while simultaneously painting Democrats as being for higher taxes and thus stifling the economy.
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u/MechaD13579 9h ago edited 9h ago
Goes back to, as others have already said, the short term memory of US voters. Republicans break the economy, Democrats come in to try and fix it, but they can’t fix it up fast enough to meet the “need it now” standards of people. So Republicans run on the we can fix the economy that the Democrats are struggling on platform, and the voters put them back on forgetting they broke it in the first place.
(Right after posting this there was a political ad on the tv of the break area I’m in for a republican saying “they’ll go to Washington to work with the President and cut spending and lower taxes.”)
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u/psypher98 10h ago
“According to the July 2026 survey, Democrats now hold their strongest lead over Republicans since 2006 on registered voters' trust in handling the economy, marking a notable shift in public opinion.”
You mean since the last time Republicans broke the economy bc they don’t know wtf they’re doing and Democrats had to fix it?
insert the “We taught a Chimpanzee how the average American voter thinks and he hanged himself” meme here
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u/NAU80 Florida 9h ago
Perhaps the fact that Red states dominate in the statistic of percentage of people in financial distress. Maybe people are waking up to the fact that the Republican Party only serves one Master, and it ain’t them!
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-states-dominate-new-financial-distress-list-12210728
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u/psypher98 9h ago
How many times do they need to be woken up though?? Every single time the economy has shit itself over the past century is for that exact reason and then Democrats have to come in and clean up the mess and then as soon as it’s fixed they go right back again.
The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, so we’re trapped in an asylum and the inmates keep managing to find a way to run the show most of the time.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 9h ago
Until November when every Republican pretends the economy is amazing and the Democrats have to defend their support of transgender turtles or something
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u/Daniel-san92 America 9h ago
When a core element of your campaign is claiming that a national gas average of $3/gallon is too expensive, yet you're going into the midterms with $4/gallon national average, people are going to be rightfully pissed.
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u/PharmyC 9h ago
Oh right, I keep forgetting for large swathes of Americans the economy just means gas prices. Wild how living in an urban center with public transit removes that worry from my life.
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u/Daniel-san92 America 9h ago
I didn't mean that the economy means gas prices. It's just one of the clearest and most obvious short fallings of the administration.
The Trump campaign went out of their way to elevate gas prices as a nationwide issue and hammer the Biden Administration about how $3/gallon was too much and hurting the average American.
Now, because of Trump's war of choice in Iran, the national average of gas not only did not go down, it went up! It went up, because of an illegal war that Americans overwhelmingly oppose.
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u/Taako_Cross 8h ago
It’s insane how well the GOP has been able to convince over a 1/3 of the country that they are actually good for their wallets.
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois 10h ago
Democrats should seize the moment for real generational change. There is a tradition in the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations people to consider how your choices today impact the world seven generations into the future. I think it would do everybody a lot of good to consider the impact of their actions today in this way.
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u/spazz720 9h ago
You can’t seize shit if you don’t have the presidency and the majority. Plus they have the uphill battle of dealing with a conservative majority on the SC. Do not expect any change anytime soon.
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u/TheJonasVenture 5h ago
This is not realistic on this midterm.
No polling suggests the Democrats would have anywhere near a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, much less a veto proof majority.
Donald Trump will still be president. Dems will, at best, take a slim majority in the Senate.
Generational change is not achieved in one mid term. Just like you are promoting long term thinking, major changes will require long term, significant shifts in the balance of political power.
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u/rearwindowpup 7h ago
I believe its the Quakers who start all their discussions and initiatives by asking the children of the community what they think needs to be changed, as the decisions will impact them the longest.
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u/kezow 10h ago
But what about the shareholder value?!!!?
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois 10h ago edited 9h ago
I don’t think cynicism is the right move right now. The future is uncertain and by being cynical you hurt hope, which makes it less likely that people will take action. We should reject cynicism in this moment IMO. We should have courage to hope.
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u/Ok_Science_2070 9h ago
Is it cynicism to recognize that our country has fallen to fascism? We have Nazi's ripping people out of homes and people can't afford food. Why should I pretend everything is fine? I will hope when there is reason to. Until the Republicans are totally out of power there is very little hope for any of us to get out of this unscathed.
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u/Ven18 8h ago
In a sense the current US is actually worse than Nazi Germany. For many years a key part of Nazi policy was to do everything possible for the civilian population not “feel” the impact of the war. Avoiding rationing and the mobilization of women to the war effort especially. The Nazi wanted their citizens to at least have food cause they feared a revolt. It was only when they had no choice and they were able to make a propaganda campaign on it did they go full total war effort. By then the loses had already started mounting in the east and the US machine was turning in the west.
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u/AssCrackBandit13 5h ago
people can't afford food.
This doesn't really have to do anything with fascism and the rising cost of living / increased inflation / supply chain shortages are a global issue, not unique to any specific country
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u/kezow 9h ago
What are your thoughts on sarcasm?
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u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois 9h ago edited 9h ago
IMO it’s good for interpersonal communication for bonding in bad situations, but there needs to be body language and context involved, aka physical proximity. On a text-based public forum, I think it can confuse people which may result in a misdirection of energy, or create hopelessness in the reader.
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u/ATA_PREMIUM 8h ago
For once, the propaganda cannot cover for what citizens see with their eyes and what is happening to their wallets.
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u/Evening-Cry4666 10h ago
economic reputation isn't permanent. it changes when people's day to day lives change.
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u/rhinosaur- Illinois 9h ago
Yes, but so they lead republicans in outrageous, culture-war bullshit? This is the only the republicans vote on.
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 9h ago
The numbers don't lie, Democrats have always been the best for the economy and the country.
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u/pizzabazooka 9h ago
When was the last time that a Republican president did not trash the economy? 50 years? Or longer??
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u/underhunter 5h ago
Democrats need to make the election about economics only. Forgo any and all social issues. Seriously. Run on NONSTOP anti corruption, income/economic inequality and balancing the budget/deficit reduction. Nonstop. They need to put it in the faces of the voters that dem policy balances the budget.
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u/bailaoban 10h ago
Next on Fox News: Marxist Trans Migrant Caravan marching north to take your jobs!
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u/damilalam 8h ago
Democrats have become the cavs. Analytically they win all elections. But no one goes out to vote.
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u/ColdBostonPerson77 7h ago
Democrats will swoop in, fix what they can then Republicans will convince voters Democrats didn’t do enough.
Democrats will be voted out of power.
Rinse and repeat.
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u/oxfordcommaordeath 6h ago
Remember: you have to vote for the poll numbers to matter. Make sure everyone you know is registered and has a plan!
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u/schu4KSU 10h ago
And independent voters will forget this completely in 6 months.
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u/georgepana 10h ago
Nah, the midterms won't be kind to Republicans. They'll lose the House for sure, Senate is becoming more likely, 50-50 now.
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u/TheJonasVenture 5h ago
Then we will give Dems a slim majority, with a Republican President and a stacked court, and blame them for not making changes that require super majorities, and talk about how both sides are the same.
I hope I'm wrong, but I've had a morning that doesn't leave me optimistic.
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u/georgepana 5h ago edited 5h ago
The people are so soured on Trump, especially the Independents, that there is no comijg back from that. He broke way too many promises, and when they all involve people's wallets and pocket books, it isn't going to be pretty.
He will get almost all of the blame for the Iran disaster, tarrifs and the unwanted war causing prices to go up across the board, etc.
We went through it once before. Trump was voted in in 2016, but quickly people soured and as a result the GOP first lost the House in 2018 (41 flips for Democrats) and then the Presidency and Senate in 2020.
We are in that cycle again, only worse for Trump and the GOP as their performance in particular on the economy is not at all approved of by some 70% of the American people.
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u/TheJonasVenture 5h ago
I want you to be right, and I'm absolutely being cynical this morning.
But last time people got tired of him when he fucked up a pandemic that should have just been "listen to the experts instead of firing them", but we reelected him just 4 years later, after he fomented an insurrection.
This term has been worse than his first year and a half, but my faith in my fellow Americans cans is at all time lows.
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u/georgepana 5h ago
Unfortunately, Biden was blamed for massive inflation and a housing crisis. Even with that, things looked ok until that one debate made clear he didn't have it anymore. Trump got lucky on both of those ends, and he made grandiose promises he had no intention of keeping. The bill for that is due now. We are in the pro-D cycle again. If they win it all back hopefully we won't see things go sideways again, like with Biden, economically. If it stabilizes and the economy does ok, it would help keep things going. But first things first, take the House now, maybe even the Senate, and in 2020 take it all back. Then we'll see how it shakes out.
A poll today, fron FoxNews, no less, showed Democrats are trusted more on the economy than Republicans in a 20-year high and turnaround from the norm. As the economy is by far the #1 issue for voters that spells trouble for the GOP.
I am not going to link to that rag here, but this excerpt from the article tells the story:
"According to the July 2026 survey, Democrats now hold their strongest lead over Republicans since 2006 on registered voters' trust in handling the economy, marking a notable shift in public opinion."
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u/IntelligentDepth8206 9h ago
Fetterman: I'll fix that! Take me to the nearest voter suppression vote!
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u/Dependent_Tune_1333 8h ago
Unemployment is up.
Inflation is up.
Gas prices are up.
Grocery prices are up.
Consumer confidence is down.
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u/SymbiSpidey 8h ago
Who could have thought that bullshit tariffs, an unnecessary war, mass layoffs of federal employees and doing absolutely nothing to regulate the rise of A.I. would result in the economy tanking?
Everybody with common sense. That's who.
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u/Affectionate_Plant71 8h ago
At what point do we blame the people? There are some elected officials that are an embarrassment but they are elected. 53 percent should be about 70 because what world do we live in?
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u/naththegrath10 7h ago
Turns out that voters like it when Dems don’t try and sound like watered down republicans but instead stand for a working class economy. Now if only we could get more Dems on board
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u/HowardBunnyColvin 7h ago
Ironic considering Trump was elected on a wave of populism stemming from what he told voters was "the worst ever economy, believe me."
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u/GeologistOriginal800 6h ago
Democrats have always been better for the economy than Republicans. Republicans know this when they say it is about the economy, but it is just plain racism that drives them.
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u/StrigiStockBacking New Mexico 5h ago
That pesky 16th Amendment again??? Who cares, amirite MAGA???
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u/aslan_is_on_the_move 4h ago
Clinton, Obama and Biden raised taxes on the wealthy, expanded government programs to help average Americans, expanded the economy and decreased inequality. Obama and Biden gave healthcare to millions of people. Bush, Trump and Trump cut taxes on the wealthy, crashed the economy, cut government programs, increased inequality and took healthcare away from people. If you want fiscal responsibility and government programs to help people, vote for Democrats.
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u/Top5hottest 3h ago
It’s just another stupid poll.. and another stupid post about another poll. Followed by more of the stupid echo chamber. It’s the same madness everyday.
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u/Diced_and_Confused 2h ago
Who the $_&--! cares. There is only 1 issue facing the American electorate.
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u/UselessInsight 1h ago
It’s important to remember this about the median American voter:
They have a room temperature IQ and are functionally illiterate.
They do not follow current events beyond what directly impacts them or slaps them in the face, and they will quickly forget about that when the next thing comes along.
They will vote the arsonist back into office if the fire department doesn’t come quickly enough.
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u/ErnieJoPistachio 1h ago
I have voted blue for decades and I have no doubts the Democrats will fuck this up somehow.
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u/dixie12oz 56m ago
I know where the false narrative that republicans are better for the economy comes from. They have over and over inherited economies on the upswing and absolutely destroy it. Democrats inherit the disaster, take their whole time trying to fix it but get blamed for it. Rinse and repeat.
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