I don't even disagree here! But things did get better under Biden, and so it's kind of confusing that people voted (by a small margin) to reject his VP and party!
and the answer here is that all the indicators you've been using to tell you that the economy is great haven't been telling you what you think they have. unemployment is intended for use by employers, not politicians, to forecast labor cost increases
Ah ha, this is why the author of the article demonstrated the predictive power of the alternate set of indicators by running an historical regression analysis against past election outcomes.
If this is a rational decision by voters, why vote for the guy under whom these very indicators were worse?
again, you're trying to insist something that isn't being argued, by me or the author. what's the point in having a discussion if you want it to be about something entirely different from what it is
Tbh I think you're blinded by whatever this 2 minutes hate session is going on in here re: Will to actually think about what the article's saying past how you can maybe use it to make will look dumb.
The article is about the electorate, and why the electorate made the decision it did.
you still don't get it. but that's okay, i get that you need it to be one thing when it's the other.
the article says in pretty plain text that they don't read charts to tell them how the economy is doing, they look at how they're doing. you can get mad at this all you want, it will remain true.
there is a compounding effect to this, the longer we underpay people, the more they struggle to keep afloat. so if we chronically underpay 25% of the workforce by design, that's a lot of drowning workers even after ten years, let alone forty
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If this is a rational decision by voters, why vote for the guy under whom these very indicators were worse?
The article is about the electorate, and why the electorate made the decision it did.
the article says in pretty plain text that they don't read charts to tell them how the economy is doing, they look at how they're doing. you can get mad at this all you want, it will remain true.