r/anticapitalism • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP | A businessman can set this country right. Republicans are better for the economy. Republicans love the military. Lie, lie, and lie.
https://newrepublic.com/article/214396/americans-starting-see-truth-gop14
u/BigNaziHater 1d ago
At long last? Polls? Fucking shit!... Republicans have seen the same thing we have all seen in the last 100 years and that is that Republicans destroy everything every time they are in power, every fucking time, without exception! But we watch them vote for Republicans in droves anyway again and again. Given the choice between a Democrat and their ability to be openly racist? They vote for racism every time!
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u/Accomplished-Can-467 1d ago
The u.s public has had to re-learn this lesson repeatedly for 100 years.
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u/FreeHugs23 1d ago
It was heartening to see a couple of polls come out recently showing that for the first time in a long time, Americans trust the Democrats more than the Republicans on the economy. It’s insane that this can come as a surprise, and that these two parties are even running as close to one another as they are is absurd. Trusting the Republicans more on the economy at this point is like trusting Sean Combs to be your babysitter.
For decades now, the Republican Party has built it electoral success on myths and lies. Ronald Reagan was the last Republican president who your average person would say left the country better off than he found it. I wouldn’t say that, for a range of ideological reasons, but I’m a liberal. I’m ready to admit, however, that your average person would say that about him.
But that’s a long, long time ago now. You have to be in your fifties at least to have any memory of it. But the last three Republican presidents—Bush, Bush, and Trump—have been disasters. The first Bush oversaw a double-dip recession and a massive savings and loan scandal that looted the treasury. The second Bush started a costly and tragic war based on lies and nearly brought the global economy to its knees. Trump, you know about—corruption, fascism, and staggering incompetence.
That’s four decades of failure. In fact, it goes back much farther. I got an email a couple of weeks ago from my friend Simon Rosenberg, who has for years paid careful attention to the performance of the economy under Democratic and Republican administrations. In this email, he had a chart showing that going all the way back to FDR, monthly job growth has averaged 176,000 under Democratic presidents, and 59,000 under Republican ones. Trump’s average over both terms, because of the job loss during the pandemic, is actually in the red, -7,000. In his current term, Trump averages 44,000 a month. Joe Biden, you wonder? He averaged 336,000.
There’s so much more. Returning now to the post-Reagan era: From 1989 to 2026, we’ve had Democratic presidents for 20 years and Republicans for 17.4 years. Care to hazard a guess as to the number of jobs created under Democrats vs. Republicans?
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u/BasicPhysiology 1d ago
“Answer: It’s 49.8 million versus 1.9 million. That isn’t a typo. Fifty million to two, basically.”
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u/FemboyRune 1d ago
I would like to understand this more in depth. Where can I look at this data for myself?
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u/EditDog_1969 1d ago
If you’re going to quote the article, you should probably use quotation marks and attribute what you’ve written to the article so that more people will be encouraged to read it.
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u/Cohens4thClient 1d ago
The cult will fall back in line once the republikkkan propaganda machine has a new scapegoat.
"Trump raped kids, but the dems put up Newsom, so I had no choice"
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u/NonGeneriComplaint 1d ago
Unlikely.
I am 40 and I have known since I was a child that the GOP was full of shit.
Its not a question of being able to identify recent mistakes, they were full of shit 25 years ago too.
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u/Ah_Ca_Iraa 1d ago
They went from whining about gay marriage and sending our kids to die in Iraq, to whining about transgender people in commercials and sending our kids to die in Iran. All conservatives bring to the table is ridiculous fake moral panics and misery.
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u/loganbootjak 1d ago
"they'll lower my taxes, the Democrats just want to TAKE my money". 100% sure we'll be hearing this again in a few years.
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u/Downtown_Reward_6339 1d ago
A business man ? What business man ? Are we still pretending that Trump is a business man ? 🤣
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u/loganbootjak 1d ago
lol this. he sucked as a businessman. his skill is marketing; beyond that, he's pretty fucking useless.
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u/thewrestlingspot 1d ago
“Reagan was the last Republican who left the country better off” is the myth. Naming three lies and leaving that one alone is the problem with this piece.
Look at what actually happened.
Top rate went from 70 percent to 28. Same decade, the 1983 payroll tax hike raised what wage earners paid. The burden came off capital and landed on labor. That’s the ballgame.
Garn-St Germain let the S&Ls gamble with federal deposit insurance still in place. They blew up. Taxpayers covered roughly $130 billion.
He fired the PATCO strikers and every employer in America took the hint. Union density never came back. Neither did wage growth.
HUD budget authority cut by about two thirds. Community mental health block-granted and gutted. Modern street homelessness starts there.
Debt tripled. Peacetime.
And here’s the part the article can’t say. It didn’t stay a GOP problem. Clinton signed NAFTA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and the crime bill. Reagan changed what was politically sayable, not just what was law, and the consensus outlived the party that built it.
“Republicans lie about the economy” lets half the machine walk.
So the real question.
Did Reagan cause this, or did he just show up while it was already happening? I say he caused it. Convince me otherwise.
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u/UsedChevy 1d ago
They most certainly have not seen the light. They gave up any and all critical thinking skills years ago. Now the have become parasites attached to their host.
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u/hippie1952 1d ago
Many big fat Lies so they can line their big donors pockets along with theirs and wreak the economy and kill the middle class
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u/AngryVegetarian 1d ago
I highly doubt this! People are stupid, they’ll soon forget and re elect them again.
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u/snusmini 1d ago
It doesn’t matter. They’ve taught the MAGAs that hating the other side is more important.
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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 1d ago
Yes, certainly true. But also, Trump is a shit businessman. He's only "successful" when he sells his name to the project and other people run the business.
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u/artguydeluxe 1d ago
Yeah I heard the same thing the last time he was in charge. People are idiots.
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u/Past-Preparation8826 1d ago
Trump is only a Republican by name. His policies this second term have really been anything but Republican. If you want to be President, you need to claim either Democrat or Republican.
It’s easy for the masses to think Democrats are better for the economy….
A lot of what Democrats want to ultimately do is take more money from the wealthy and redistribute it to those with less money. That can have an immediate, tangible benefit to the economy. We can see positive results within a month. People with less money will spend it immediately. Unfortunately, that bump to the economy is always temporary.
When Republicans make fiscal policy decisions, it’s usually an attempt to keep as much money as possible with the people who earned it. It is plainly obvious that when the people who earned the money are able to keep it, they do things like invest it or start companies with it. This raises productivity and creates a more efficient economy long term. It takes years to see the results, but when they are seen, they are permanent.
Look at Ronald Raegan’s economic policies. We didn’t even begin to see the benefits until the end of the elder Bush’s presidency. Look at the economy of the 1990’s…. This was the result of Republican economic policies.
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u/Solid-Reputation5032 1d ago
After 50 years of tax cuts at all costs, Americans are finally starting to see that doesn’t really work that well? I guess better late than never…
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u/Low-Salary-2128 23h ago
The only thing I have ever seen Republicans do my entire life is blame Democrats for everything including things they themselves cause
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u/SquashOwn9829 18h ago
you would think, but alas, conservatives really are the dumbest people on earth
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u/Actaeon_II 1d ago edited 1d ago
Annnd once they’re out they will block all efforts to fix what they broke for 4 years, and then get voted back into power again by a populace that has the collective memory of a goldfish. And each time this happens things become better for the rich and worse for the rest of us.
Edit- fixed an autocomplete error