re: #207 wheat-dogg

Trump and the RWNJ media convinced Middle America that the American economy was going to hell in a handbasket, despite there being no evidence it was. No breadlines. No soup kitchens. No astronomical inflation. Stock market doing well. Bond markets, too. Home sales up. Unemployment low. Stores have plenty of food and stuff. In short, anyone with half a brain (or knowledge of the Great Depression) would have known a failing economy was a complete lie.

Maybe their local economy was in the dumpster, and that’s why they voted for Trump, but he’s not going to fix that problem at all.

And wages were finally starting to go up, in part because of the movement to raise minimum wages, and to push companies to raise wages in lieu of pushing profits to shareholders and the company’s highest levels.