A Cliff Claven Moment on Republicans And Their 'Economic Expertise'
They wreck the economy, Dems fix it, and then convince the 'not-so-bright' crowd that Dems ruined it in the first place.
Since 1869, every time Republicans have controlled the White House and Congress for five years or more, it has ended in a recession or a depression. Most recently — well before Trump’s incompetence imploded the economy — W’s tenure in office led to the Great Recession of 2007–8.
Before that, the period from 1921 to 1933, which ended with the Great Depression, created a Great Depression. Republicans were in control in 1869, and within four years, we had the Great Depression of 1873, which lasted six years. The policies of Ronald Reagan exploded the deficit, and to this day, America is the greatest debtor in world history with no intention or the means to repay the debt. We hold much of the world by a sensitive part of the male anatomy because we have a lot of their money.
When you get right down to it, though, it is so simple to understand. Republicans, generation after generation, serve the wealthiest 5 percent and con the other 45 percent of self-proclaimed conservatives into voting to support their policies with carnival-barker promises of “trickle-down” and “supply side” economics that will lift everyone’s boat.
Republicans never legislate to assist working families. I challenge anyone to bring up any policy put forth by Republicans over the past 40 years that was beneficial to Main Street and the working class. The 5 percent wealthiest Americans don’t fear recessions as they have their high-paid brokers to keep them safe, and then they go on buying sprees as the rest of America flails helplessly. Time after time, the GOP has come through their own-caused recessions in fine shape, well enough to ‘go another round’ to spend four years slamming anything the Dems do and try to return some balance to the economy.
The myth that Americans were better off under Trump has a staying power like Santa Claus. At some point, and for reasons that are quite simple to understand, as kids, we all jumped on the Santa Claus bandwagon. An unseen, genteel, old man in a red suit with a hearty laugh promised all of us, so long as we behaved, that he would bring us whatever we asked for on one night in December. As logistically impossible as it sounded even to us as kids, how many of us ever got precisely what we wanted? We would get one item and many things we never really asked for out of our long lists. Often, though, we would find whatever mom and dad could afford under the tree.
Sooner or later, the Santa train would pull out of the station, and that first Christmas when we realized that it had all been a hoax was always a harsh one for many kids. What is it, though, that these tens of millions of Americans who no longer believe in Santa still, for some reason, believe in Trump? A man who has never fulfilled any of his promises to the middle and working classes?
Could it be because he keeps fulfilling his promises to the 5 percent wealthiest who own and control the corporations shaping the opinions of Americans? Remember, corporations are entitled to the same degree of free speech that “we the people” have.” I wonder how many MAGidiots understand that nuance.