By prioritizing workers and the middle class, Biden has created the best economy in decades—for everyone. “Inflation is low, unemployment is low and there’s virtually no hint of a recession. But many Americans, according to surveys, are convinced the economy is terrible.”
How do journalists explain this paradox? Either it’s an unfathomable mystery, or it’s Biden’s poor messaging.
The obvious explanation—that journalists are failing at THEIR job—escapes them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage
@58fbd252 One of the saddest things I've learned in the past eight years, is how highly incentivized the major media is to normalize and elevate loudmouthed political desperadoes who put eyeballs on screens, while denigrating, diminishing and ignoring the achievements of competent administrators busting their guts to get the job done.
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Could it be that these metrics are insufficient or inaccurate indicators of the deep structural problems facing American capitalism that are driving intense anxiety and precarity for most Americans?
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Biden's economy is good like COVID is over, which is to say not at all. Not only has he localized the burden of the pandemic to working families by forcing them into workspaces and schools where COVID runs rampant, but he's also saddled every single person ever infected with Covid with a chronic morbidity burden that will bankrupt them as it takes years from their lives. And he did it to win the favor of Elites that hold us in contempt. Whaddaguy, whaddaguy.
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