• Wisens@discuss.tchncs.de
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    What ever happened to the fiscal conservatives in congress?

    Was that all just a lie until they could openly bleed us dry?

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      Always … liberals / democrats manage economy to balance budgets but no one sees the results because economic effects take time

      By the time time effects are felt, conservatives / republicans come into power and everyone associates the economy to them … conservatives / republicans than gut the economy and give money to wealthy owners which degrades the economy

      Public get tired of bad economy, support liberals / democrats to do something about the economy

      Rinse … repeat … rinse … repeat

      • Public get tired of bad economy, support liberals / democrats to do something about the economy

        Then people forget who was in charge when the bad times started. Was fun talking to my mom recently about COVID and how the economic downturn and lockdowns were primarily under Trump. Not even trying to blame it on him or anything; just stating those coincided and were during his term because having an a basic timeline is apparently hard when it goes against the narrative you want to push, even when you actually know the years and months those events happened.

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          Yep the trumpaholics I know can’t answer basic facts about his actions or remember who was president in 2020

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      Canada has the same issue where we are somehow delusional in thinking the right is more economic, which is technically true but only if you’re in the business owner or significant investments class.

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        Similar, not quite the same issue. Conservatives are zero sum legislators on behalf of rich psychopaths, Liberals are non-zero sum on behalf of rich psychopaths and NDP actually care about a functioning, equitable system that works for everyone and doesn’t cater to psychopaths.

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          The NDP does not really listen to what people want though.

          They absolutely blew this election and it’s NOT just because the liberals changed leaders. If they listened or looked at the polls, they would have known their leader was cooked.

          Their platform was fine, but their campaigning and communication was awful.