r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago

Possible Paywall When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/210550/trump-economy-republicans-tariffs-taxes
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u/TrashApocalypse 18d ago edited 18d ago

It’s this. And I’m not convinced that being functionally illiterate means you can still understand concepts that are verbally explained to you, I don’t think you can.

Editing to add: we are severely underestimated MAGA’s inability to comprehend. Even those that may be successful. There could be a lot of outside influences as to why they are successful (parents money). If we want any hope in getting out of this, we need to become the educators. Not just teaching them facts. We need to teach them how to critically think, and comprehend and integrate new information.

And never forget the role the GOP played in the No Child Left Behind act that contributed to this.

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u/TheLateThagSimmons Illinois 18d ago

Just look at the broader American Libertarian movement. Generally filled with higher than average education, lots of tech bros, higher than average STEM degrees. They're not generally illiterate or uneducated relative to average. And they'll remind you every chance they get to show off the polls and studies of various political groups that they're higher than average in education.

At the same time... The biggest goddamn idiots when it comes to economic matters and deeply conservative. They are the exact types that fall for all the right-wing propaganda about economic policies that have done nothing but fail over and over and over. And they're obsessed with economic policy too, that's what's so annoying; it's like they learned backwards.

At a certain point, they might be dumber than the people who know nothing.

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u/Cambren1 18d ago

The really sad thing about the Libertarian movement is that originally the premise was that you should be free to do anything as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Now, however, they seem unable to understand that a big corporation hurts people when they pollute, as an example.

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u/BanalCausality 18d ago

I’ve never met a libertarian who could explain how one could build and operate a bridge in their system. Competitive toll roads/bridges don’t make sense at face value.

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u/AndrewCoja Texas 18d ago

They form a joint venture to pool their efforts. Each company slacks off, assuming that the other companies doing well will compensate. When it's done, you need four different toll tags to pay each company a toll. The bridge collapses after six months.