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This is why Trump is going to win. People aren't going to care that he's fascist. They're going to care that he isn't Biden.
Right, things were going much better under trump… right…?
It doesnt matter if they were or not. People aren’t smart. They will think wow gas was cheaper and my groceries weren’t this expensive. You can say Biden passed all these programs but it doesn’t matter if people feel their finances are worse under Biden than trump.
Yeah, implementing a tax law that expires under Biden to cost the lower earners more is such a sketchy move.
If your reflex argument is "My guy sucks but Trump does too" it's not an argument that's going to drive people to go vote Biden. That's an argument for apathy.
The post you're replying to wasn't a judgement call on who was better, they're just pointing out that these issues are what drive people's votes. If people feel like their situation sucks, they'll want to vote for a change. People don't vote by hard analysis.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. This is what many experts cite as the reason for why Brexit happened, why Trump happened (the first time), and why so many people are siding with right-wing populism. It's basically an established fact now, and if the left/centre cannot fix these fundamental problems, the right gets in again.
Another example would be 1930s Germany. Instead of learning from history and working to resolve issues, we instead get countless articles of "actually things are better than ever and it's your fault you don't understand how good you have it". Anything to not interrupt the transfer the wealth to the rich. That's how capitalism devolves into fascism. The wealthy industrialists were great fans of the nazis (or were simply nazis themselves).
There are a lot of partisan people who tend to treat the success of their side as a total moral imperative, and that mentality has led them to support some pretty crummy politicians going on 40 years.
It's why the working class and working poor have so little power. Fascism didn't just happen overnight. The 99% that always vote Democrat or Republican no matter what the candidate has done are the ones who enabled it.