23 January 2024

You Must Be This Angry to Vote - Donald's Republican Party

"America is too great for small dreams."
- Ronald Reagan

“We’re a nation whose economy is collapsing into a cesspool of ruin. We have become a drug infested, crime-ridden nation, which is incapable of solving the simplest of problems.”
- Donald Trump

Reagan's "It's morning again in America," has become Trump's campaign marked by "mourning again in America."

This negativity is helped along by almost laughably negative economics coverage. 

If it were a novel, it would include dialogue like this: 
"It's a beautiful, sunny day Heathcliff. Kiss me!"
Heathcliff, through clenched teeth, "Someday we are all going to die."

But given it is "news" coverage, it sounds like this: 
"Unemployment is at record lows! The stock market is at record highs! Inflation is dramatically lower!"
"Yes but the economy will eventually fall into a recession. It might not be for a decade. It might be next week. But it will eventually falter. And that bad news - however speculative - is the real news."


There is a new, not so amusing sign, hanging outside today's Republican Circus - I mean Party.



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