So, for over two decades we’ve been writing about how the Murdochs, Roger Ailes, and Fox (and more recently), Brietbart and Bannon, et al. have been hood-winking the under-educated segment of primarily whyte America… on a wide range of topics.
But never more obviously than on topics economic.
Throughout the terror-reign of 45, these outlets touted the Dow’s rise (which only benefits about the top 5% of Americans), while 45 cut taxes on billionaires, spent wildly on crony contracts, and ran the deficit to 3X what it was under Mr. Obama. [And don’t get me started on the lunacy of 45’s tariff non-sequiturs.]
Then the bills all… came due. Just as obtained… under Bush/Cheney — and Reagan.
Democratic Presidents, each and all — cleaned it up. Fixed the corruption and insider dealing, and righted the ship. You’re welcome Paul.
But Fox especially (for over 20 years!) kept on lying about the ACTUAL economy — as experienced by middle America. They painted it as a horror-show, when it was nothing of the sort.
So too, today. Mr. Biden’s unemployment numbers are now better than Tangerine’s best two quarters. Yes, there is still some inflation, but the economy has actually recovered from Trumpian disaster-nomics.
Yet Mirengoff’s criticism amounts to a complaint that the people fed a diet of Fox News (et al.) still THINK the economy is tanking.
And thus he thinks GOP has a chance — essentially because people without even high school diplomas will BELIEVE things are far worse than they are.
Mediocre whyte guys blaming non-existent quota systems, for why they cannot keep a job. Ignorant whyte women believing all asylum seekers are drug dealers.
And so on.
It is true, Paul, the propagandists can sway the most gullible among us. But this time, well-educated suburban whyte women are turning out and in private voting for progress, not the Handmaids’ Tale version of AmeriKKKa the Foxers are selling.
Just look at the flame out of the constitutional “anti-abortion” vote in Ohio — your insane zealots went down to a 58-42 defeat.
That is a sea-change — a landslide — in favor of real women having control over their own bodies.
Educated, self-assured women (albeit perhaps secretive, given their souring marriages) — as many are married to highly-controlling MAGAt men… are voting (in the privacy of the voting booth!) — for progress. For Democrats. For Democratic (free) ideas.
The next morning, they likely express (entirely faux) befuddlement — to their idiot hubby: “How did the GOP… lose?!” Meanwhile, they KNOW exactly how. They are the change, you GOP idiots… THE Change you embittered old whyte guys inadvertently created — with these 19th Century culture agenda tests.
Hilarious.
So sure Paul… talk about what seventh grade educated whyte men believe — in the face of actually solid, real and utterly obliterating / conflicting data. The GOP is a dead, lying brand.
Out.
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