[cglace]

People were worried about the economy and inflation. To say that most voters wanted to dismantle the government is a bit of a stretch.

I remember all the posters here expressing their belief that Doge would do nothing and was just an advisory role.

[rs186]

I agree, but I lament how voters quickly forget the chaos from the first Trump administration, and how much they didn't care about the DOGE agenda. They think they voted for a lower inflation (which is a very questionable premise by itself), but they didn't realize they were voting for the whole package. I definitely wasn't surprised, and American people deserve this.

Hopefully the voters come to their mind in the next election, and hope it's not too late.

[johnnyanmac]

>They think they voted for a lower inflation (which is a very questionable premise by itself)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-inflation-increases...

And yet those people are so quiet at best. At worst they think "it has to get worse before it gets better".

But yes, I do wish some signifigant portion of the voter base would simply inquire one step further on their represenatives. Trump had no action plans for this, and when sworn in he passed 100 EO's and left Inflation as "tbd". Still is, as far as I know.

[intended]

1) There is a group of voters, typically younger men, who would very much want to see things burn to the ground. A form of nihilism of outlook.

2) People never want the bad things, which is why voters tend to ignore information that tells them that things will be bad.

People didnt realize that Biden had stepped down after the election. Voters were not aware that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing.

Information that this was going to happen, was shared, repeated and told over and over again.

This is basically leopards-eating-face territory.

Sugar coating it, leaving people berefet of their own authorship of their life, of their choices? I have no idea how that results in anything other than a way to feel nice about each other.

[slt2021]

>This is basically leopards-eating-face territory.

young people are too poor and dont have much to lose.

They wanted a break from the status quo, some new faces, other than DC establishment in power, and Trump is delivering on that demand

[cglace]

I'd think they would be interested in healthcare and the economy and not necessarily that we place conspiracy theorists in high positions.

Unless the youth of today are that dumb.

[slt2021]

Every conspiracy is being confirmed, so I wouldnt be too harsh calling these conspiracies

[johnnyanmac]

which conspiracies?

[slt2021]

RFK Jr's book "The Real Anthony Fauci"[1], where he exposes the long history behind the creating custom designer viruses under the NIH umbrella, which led to COVID pandemic, and how every mainstream journo called him "conspiracy theorist". Turns out it was the lab leak after all, according to the CIA[2]

This is the most important one, once we get to the bottom of who created virus that killed millions and caused tens of trillions in economic damage, it will cause other more significant events.

Another one, how he explained the nature behind the Ukraine war, and how military industrial complex is stealing US government money and profiting off of artificially prolonging the Ukraine-Russia war[3]. Everyone called him conspiracy theorist, when he said BlackRock, Monsanto, DuPont have bought Ukrainian land, turns out it was true.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci
  2. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWowuHMvpzU

[johnnyanmac]

new faces but we have the oldest president in history. anti-establishent so they root on the literal richest man in the world to take more money from them. Too poor but they aren't out on the street protesting hunreds of billions in tax cuts to the corporate chains they are binded by.

I completely get being rebellious. But is any of this "fun" for them? Just saying they are nihilistic makes more sense at this point.

[slt2021]

it is what it is. As Marx said: "the working class people have nothing to lose, but their chains".

The Democrat party can blame the other side for being stupid, or they can blame themselves for losing, what could have been a slam dunk election win, had they understood and addressed the concerns of the voter base.

[bamboozled]

Which is weird because by the numbers, the economy was doing wonderfully. Maybe you meant to say. People were told an economy prophecy and believed it ?

Even during campaigning the republicans literally warned people their vision would incur economy hardships but that it would be worth it in the long run.

I get the frustration that the price of daily goods was too high but the incumbents did present an actual feasible plan to deal with it. So I’m not really sure it was about “the economy”.

Anyway everything outlined in this article seemed pretty likely to happen, they literally told people their plans ?

[lenerdenator]

> I get the frustration that the price of daily goods was too high but the incumbents did present an actual feasible plan to deal with it. So I’m not really sure it was about “the economy”.

As usual, it's about the allocation of surplus value.

The US has enjoyed a great economy over the past four years, and really, even longer. I'm in my 30s and most of my life has been marked by economic expansion. The problem comes from the fact that we take all of the money generated by that economic expansion and pipe it to shareholders instead of labor. The average person cannot live solely off the returns from their equity investments; they have to work in order to pay bills. That work essentially started buying less over the last half-decade.

Now, is that partially because of the Biden administration? Yes. Any time you print money, it devalues the money that already exists.

But it's also, and more fundamentally, the fault of the first Trump administration. The PPP, funded with printed money, was a massive subsidy to upper-middle class Americans, and 35-ish years of GOP revenue policy made sure it has to be printed. The US had no reserves of cash to pay for an emergency like COVID. Why? Because we haven't had a real federal tax discussion since George HW Bush said "read my lips: no new taxes".

That, of course, doesn't matter: the buck stops at the Oval Office, and Biden didn't have the likely personality disorder necessary to shove the buck back in people's faces on the order that Trump does. Neither did Harris. So back to the "glory" years of 2016-2019 we go, reckless monetary policy and all.