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> Statistically not though. That's just the news making you feel that way.

I am not only looking at statistics to comfort myself. I am also looking at leadership and the direction of this ship, just like the way I would evaluate a potential employer.

Working a job at a sinking, chaotic ship with NO DESIRE to improve sucks. America's leadership, government and 50% of the population who'd cheer the crazy captain at the expense of the ship are exactly that.

No amount of past statistics can change the present reality.

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I’m using current statistics.

How exactly is the ship sinking?

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> How exactly is the ship sinking?

I genuinely don't understand if this question is legit. Are you seriously living under a rock?

Covid: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Unemployemnt: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

Lifexpectancy: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-lif...

Education: https://hechingerreport.org/what-2018-pisa-international-ran...

Deficits (please pay attention to Republican terms vs Democratic terms) https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/defic...

US incarceration rate: https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08...

And I'll leave US racism, US supreme court politics, US voter suppression as an exercise (an exercise that I'm not sure you will pass since you appear to think America has been just fine lately)

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Again, none of those things have become noticeably worse under the current presidential administration than any other in the last couple decades, except as related to COVID, which again, is skewing every nation on earth's stats, not just the US. Have you looked at the COVID / unemployment / life expectancy stats for other countries?

For everything else, are we looking at the same stats?

Deficit: higher under Obama than it was under Bush / has been under Trump.

Incarceration rates: continuing to decrease during Trump's term.

Education: yeah, America's is pretty terrible. But that's been a trend for a long time, Trump has nothing to do with it.

The news is making you think things are worse than they actually are. Take a break from it.

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Please don't cherry pick select stats and your graph reading needs some brushing up.

The fact that current administration is doing NOT-A-THING to improve anything should be reason enough to vote him out.

But the fact that he has made education worse, deficits larger, demonstrated incompetent handling of crisis, escalated race relations back to civil wars era, actively encouraging voter suppression just makes me wonder what really makes those supporters so ignorant. Maybe blind faith is more powerful than one believes.

(And all I talked about was only done in 1 year, I could go back and each year was bad).

We have turned into some third world country where injustice, incompetence and corruption are routine and people just turn a blind eye.

And I have loved ones who have been affected from this administrations policies. It must be easy to say everything you said when it doesn't directly affect you. But we are all real people who are getting impacted with this hateful incompetence.

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I didn't cherry pick stats. I pointed out that a number of them are being affected by a GLOBAL PANDEMIC which the rest of the world is currently suffering from too. The ones that have any hope of being separated from that I talked about. If we want to talk about those other stats relative to how the rest of the world is doing on them, I'm happy to do that too. But anything else is unbelievably disingenuous.

My graph reading needs brushing up? Do you know which years Obama was president? Are you reading the same graph (the one you linked) that I am? The deficit was larger in Obama's presidency in multiple years than it has been at any time in Trump's.

What policies have affected your loved ones? I'd love to talk about them.

How did Trump make education worse? Explicitly please.

How has Trump encourage voter suppression?

In Trump's presidency, there was the lowest black unemployment rate there has ever been. How exactly is it his fault that "race relations" are in the toilet? Did he shoot unarmed black men? Did he applaud it? Has his repeated denouncement of White Supremacy[1] not been good enough for you? The fact that you think race relations are EVEN CLOSE to what they were in the fucking Civil War era makes this the dumbest conversation I've had on the internet this month.

Seriously, stop reading the news, it's rotting your brain.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAfw4bmtxrE

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Wow, I can't help you if you still have those questions. I would encourage you to google those exact questions up.

Let me help you with one specific item. Deficits https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

Just Google stuff up and stop being a willing fool. The GOP and Trump will eat this country and spit it on your children.