We’ve been in a recession for most of the year, and voters know it. Recent polls show the economy as the only issue that genuinely matters. Democrats, despite focusing on fringe issues like abortion up to birth, know it too. Why else pretend we’re not in a recession?
Related: Wikipedia Locks Page Edits after it Changes the Definition of “Recession.”
If the economy didn’t matter, they’d be like, ‘yeah, we’re there, but it’s not our fault.’ I know; they’ve said that, too, especially the rank-and-file believers. For them, progressivism is a faith-based system with no revealed text. You don’t have to see it work. It just does. And examples of it not working are just noise from unbelievers. That’s why it is so impressive when a boots-on-the-ground Democrat has a Road to Damascus Moment. Something unbelievable must happen to break them free.
Higher up the food-shortage chain, where other people’s money is no object, the political elite have a different experience. These Pharisees of the Liberal Left can see recession in the goat entrails, but it is he who shall not be named. And it is their job to comfort their base. They do this by redefining reality out from under anyone who will listen or by beating it into people who won’t.
“This is not the recession you are looking for.”
A recession used to be two consecutive quarters of negative GDP. Today it is whatever Democrats need it to be to retain a hold on power. It is an essential lesson for the folks who don’t typically pay much attention to politics until, like a magic trick, the Dems make half of their hard-earned dollars disappear.
Democrats did that, and they’d do anything to avoid talking about it or taking the blame because they’ve only just begun.
But?
- More than 90 percent of voters are worried about the U.S. economy and inflation.
- Seventy-one percent of voters are “very concerned” with inflation.
- More than 80 percent told Politico that the economy would play a significant role in deciding who to vote for
- About 75 percent of Democrats and 90 percent of Republicans said it would play a major factor in their decision-making process come November.
- Seventy percent of voters believe the United States is heading down the wrong track.
There are two elephants in this room. One of them is the economic blight eating away at the lifestyles of everyday Americans. The other is Republicans claiming they will – at the very least – try to slow or stop the decline.
A decline that, if they take any majority anywhere, will be “their fault.”
HT | Epoch Times
