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To me, an American, here's how this reads: In past economic downturns, the US government could at least construct a plausible story of our resilience and strength because of things like "inflation is high all over the world, but ours is lower than other trading partners" or "unemployment rate is higher than we'd like but still lower than other developed nations" and things like that. This time around, it's clear in many ways that our federal (and often state) governments are making things so much worse for us than necessary, not doing anything that's effective to fix the problems, and other developed countries / trading partners / former allies (even those who are facing similar issues and/or dealing with Trump's shenanigans) are doing better than us in metrics that are important for the working class.
Believe me when I say, I'll be pointing this out and rubbing it in MAGA supporters' faces along with everything else. Even a mediocre president and incompetent congress could have maintained the slow but steady recovery we were in the midst of before Trump took over.
Instead, they supported and elected a terrible president and malicious / complicit congress, and the resulting damage to our country, the economy, and our reputation is now cemented in. They voted to fuck everybody over, which tracks with the rapist and pedophile supporting crowd.
GLWT, most of them live in a different reality
My thoughts exactly. Why bother? They're hopeless if they haven't figured it out by now, so you're just antagonizing an idiot. I'd rather spend my limited capacity doing something productive, though antagonizing idiots might be productive for some.
We have to keep trying
Well said, maybe one day our nation's can be friends again but it will be a long hard process.
Your country will never be what it used to be and that may be hard for some of you to accept. I hope you guys come to your senses soon.