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AnimalMuppet | on: Trump wins presidency for second time
The data may show that. The people don't feel that. (Many of them don't see it in their budgets, either.)
ZeroGravitas | parent | next
Voting for the guy that complained American wages were too high and thinks tariffs are paid by other countries will definitely not help.

Please be more specific if you are explaining why American voters have got angry and done something stupid that will make things worse or if you are defending that stupidity as a good thing that will help the situation you are talking about.

toomuchtodo | root | parent
Like Brexit, you have to let the electorate find out the hard way.
schnebbau | parent | next
My theory is that social media has given people this skewed perspective of reality where everyone else appears to be rich and living in luxury.

This makes their own lives, in which they are still better off than 99.9% of the history of humanity, feel worse.

nsxwolf | root | parent | next
When your lifestyle suddenly has to change in drastic ways because of a rapid increase in prices none of this makes anyone feel any better. "Think about how much worse it COULD be, kids!"
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no_wizard | root | parent
or you know, wages stagnated for 40 years and haven't kept pace with productivity gains, and it was inevitable that this would wear most American citizens down and we'd feel it more and more over time.

The most recent wage gains failed to make up for this fact

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/heres-how-labor-dynamism-aff...

no_wizard | parent | next
But it’s a skewed picture of the actuality, which that those wage gains didn’t make up for the 40 years of stagnation preceding it.

If wage gains kept pace with productivity gains it’d be a very different and vastly better economic story for the average American

gruez | root | parent
>which that those wage gains didn’t make up for the 40 years of stagnation preceding it.

It stagnated in 2008-2016 but they still voted for obama, but when it finally started rising in 2016 they voted for trump?

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pupppet | parent | next
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InDubioProRubio | root | parent
Reality is always a social construct, and by having air superiority you can talk anything into reality.
croes | parent
You don’t feel earth rotation either but it still exists.

You can’t argue about feelings

psychoslave | root | parent
People definitely can feel the impact of earth rotation on a daily basis. They literally would not even have the notion of a day without it actually.

https://sciencenotes.org/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-stop...

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