Posted on 03/12/2017 6:32:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Against the new administration’s ambitious goals, Democrats are stuck with increasingly transparent attempts to undermine the president with phony narratives endlessly repeated by their media surrogates. The stranglehold the mainstream media had on American opinion was broken long ago and Americans understand the game played by the Progressive Left-Democrat-Media opinion complex. And they either look for other sources of news and opinion or they discount for the expected collusion when they hear Democrat talking points repeated as objective fact.
Forget the nakedly partisan attempts to create a media narrative about Russian hacking and so undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of President Trump and his administration. Forget too “the Resistance” which exists more as a social media meme than a real life phenomena—progressive street violence notwithstanding. What matters is jobs, not phony outrage cooked up by professional agitators.
The complaints of D.C. Democrats and their Millennial storm troopers don’t have much purchase with middle America when the economy is growing and people are working. As Loretta Lynn sang in her 1971 classic “One’s On The Way”: “The White House social season should be glitterin’ an’ gay but here in Topeka the rainis a fallin’, the faucet is a drippin’ and the kids are a bawlin’.” In other words, no matter what the powerful and connected think, ordinary people have bills to pay and families to raise and they can only do it with a job. And the fact that there are a lot more jobs than there were a few months ago has significant implications for Democrats who think they can win elections based on stoking resentments based on niche grievances and so-called microaggressions.
This week’s economic reports were so uniformly positive that even financial news titan Bloomberg, a reliable defender of Davos class perquisites, was forced to admit that “America’s labor market is getting better by almost any measure.”
The Democrats are playing the same old record on the jukebox and people are tired of it. The Dems forgot that white working class people need to be listened too as well.
Exactly right.
I will go further: the debt is not an issue if the economy is growing and optimism is high. Debt collectors will always rewite better terms if a) they really have no power to firce collection any way, and b) if the debtor just got a high paying job. Why kill the golden goose just as it’s starting to lay eggs again?
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-—Americans understand the game played by the Progressive Left-Democrat-Media opinion complex——
However, more Americans voted for Hillary than for Trump. The media actually won the minds of most Americans.
There is little room for rejoicing
He will win in a landslide of popular as well as electoral votes.
Democrats hate it when things get better for people. Their whole business model depends on making people poor, desperate and unhappy.
Did they?
While I will not argue that there were more votes for Hillary, I *will* argue that we have no way of knowing how many of those votes were legitimate. And until the vote system is cleaned up, we will never know.
I honestly believe Democrats don’t want people to have good jobs or be prosperous. They want people to be angry victims and clients of the Government. I think this shift started in the 1980s and was complete by the 2000s, when the Marxists had basically taken over the Party.
A rising tide lifts all boats someone famous once said ....
I understand, even anticipated your post but....... The votes were in fact counted. The total matters, valid or not
By the time 2020 rolls around, Trump’s economic program will have generated many new jobs and much wealth right down to the lower middle income voters.
Of course the total matters—it *is* how the elections are decided.
But we don’t have to be complacent about how it was derived.
There were more votes REPORTED for Hillary than for Donald. How many AMERICANS voted for each candidate is an open issue, which will most likely never be resolved.
Bingo
Since 2008, a lot of necessary purchases have been put off and a lot of repair/maintenance to homes, businesses, infrastructure, military, etc has been deferred.
This recovery is going to make the 1980's seem downright quaint.
The media actually won the minds of most Americans.
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Mainly in a couple of large blue states.
That’s a very good point. Since the election a lot of land development projects have started up in our area. No coincidence is this.
“However, more Americans voted for Hillary than for Trump. The media actually won the minds of most Americans.”
While that is a problem, the VAST majority of those like-minded Hillary voters were located in just a few large cities.
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