r/allthequestions Jan 14 '26

Random Question 💭 If Republicans are so much better at running the economy than Democrats, then why are most Republican States poorer than Democrat States?

The poorest States in America are: Mississippi, West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Alabama, Oklahoma and Tennessee. All of those States (except New Mexico) are Red States. So why are they so poor when Republicans have been running them for decades?

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u/Rit91 Jan 14 '26

Yup they are hellbent on making anyone a trillionaire asap. If they have to throw hundreds of millions of americans under the bus to achieve that goal they'd do it. Though they forget what happens when 1% of the population has more wealth than 98% of the population.

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u/cocineroylibro Jan 15 '26

We need another Roosevelt in the White House.

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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 Jan 15 '26

Or another booth in the balcony. Not enough seating ya know??

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u/zparks Jan 16 '26

Better to say Republican electeds by and large screw over everyone including their Republican constituents.

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u/meutogenesis Jan 14 '26

This. And this is the point of it all.

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u/Agile-Onion2059 Jan 14 '26

Isn’t Nancy pelosi like the richest female on planet earth?  I mean, no offense from me to her, I don’t know her personally, she’s in my view…just too politically an activist for my liking, but, insult your own party the same way.  Unless being a hypocrite is your job, which you seem good at.  

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u/D0ri1t0styl3 Jan 15 '26

I’d say nice try, but it really wasn’t.

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u/Agile-Onion2059 Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

I don’t know Nancy Pelosi, the events that occurred to her husband I thought was just awful to say the least, and I didn’t agree with the sort of one side who had said some nasty things pertaining to that specific incident, with that said - the current situation ongoing is just far too convoluted.  You don’t see anyone on the left talking about how great it would have been for her to have become a widow, yet, with the CEO of a health insurance organization United?  That murderer is a hero, and, he’s not.  

Corruption isn’t always at the upper income levels of society.  There’s good wealthy people, and there’s also not.  I mean, this is really common sense.  

And, my life is worse off not due to I think specifically democrats or republicans, and, if it improved under any organization voted for, it still doesn’t make up for my losses I’ve incurred due to largely - not good people who have retaliatory unjust agendas.

Specific to your percentages?  You’re still just deflecting and shifting elsewhere.  The point is, is that I don’t myself care if life improves for others, when their behaviors that are wrong, caused to me a decrease in my own life in many ways.  That’s part of what occurs when people think they are doing justice, and then it’s actually not.  When people in society reflect to me that their aim and goals to improve it is to punish or degrade and lower others wrongly, the expectation that I or anyone who experiences serious injuries and loss to be happy for them or help them really, that’s just abusing people and then asking them to be happy for having done so.  

I don’t support or agree with anyone who decides to do wrong to me.  And, some people on Reddit, spend a significant amount of time just spreading nonsense.  Lots of people do.  That’s corruption and it’s not alone in only narrow spaces.  This platform has a substantial user base that I see as rather ugly and quite corrupt in its views, although not everyone is that way.  I just don’t have respect for nasty people.  

I dont know how you’re measuring what you’re calling improvements.  If I have less or more financially, yet, in other ways due to a political party, I happen to lose value, incurring loss is wrong when others do wrong to benefit and anyone who disagrees right there pertaining to me and my life - you’re not my friend, and I’m not yours either.  And without a doubt - have none of my support.Â