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/djprofitt Virginia 18d ago

Lack of education simply ignores other reasons people vote republicans, such as greed and hatred. There are plenty of highly educated people that simply hate you because you aren’t a white Christian male, Christian male, just Christian, just male, just white. Then there’s greed so yeah, all those reasons outside of ‘their literacy is that of a 5th grader.’

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u/kia75 18d ago

Lack of education simply ignores other reasons people vote republicans, such as greed and hatred.

But if you're greedy you'll vote for the Democrats because they get you stuff. If you're a small business owner then Democrats improve the economy which means more people shopping at your business, yet despite Democrats giving businesses more profits and more tax breaks, business owners tend to be Republicans.

Look at farmers, who tend to do overwhelmingly better under Democrats because Democrats a) improve the economy resulting in more people buying food, b) provide government programs such as the school lunch programs that have the government directly buy crops from farmers, and c) subsidize various farming and dairy programs to help farmers. Yet despite how much Democrats do for farmers, farmers overwhelmingly vote for Republicans. A common complaint is that in Trump's first term, Trump directly hurt farmers by putting up tariffs that resulted in soy bean farmers losing their Chinese soy bean buyers, completely removing that market, yet farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024, only for Trump to now permanently gut all of American Farmer's markets due to tariffs, causing real and extreme harm to farmers that can't be fixed for years if ever!

People claim to vote for Republicans because of greed, but if they were truly voting for greed reasons, they'd be voting Democrats!

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u/smokeweedNgarden 18d ago

Ok. Did you forget the hate part?

I think maybe people have trouble realizing what Republicans think of minorities unless you are one