• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It really needs to be contextualized that, compared to essentially all other countries, the economic recovery the United States has experienced is far far better. That doesn’t mean that people’s pain right now isn’t real, but a lot of these issues are global in scale, and leaders across the entire planet have been having much harder times. There isn’t a “economy gooder” button on Biden’s desk that he can press.

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          The thing they aren’t getting is that people are in financial pain. It doesn’t matter that the dive was arrested, they’re still in a pile of shit. He’s celebrating like he fixed it when all he did was avert a catastrophe in the next year. If his messaging acknowledged people’s pain and said he wanted to get the economy good for people without stock based trust funds then more than a third of the country might respond positively to him.