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Hortensis

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3. Yes. But it's a lot better for people to see good things coming through
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 04:25 PM
Jan 2022

government, than not. Matters less who individuals choose to believe provides good for them, including all the new good-paying jobs that'll be created, than that it's happening for them. Democrats, who are trying to save government, need people to have hope and reassurance that government is doing good.

The Republican bastards know that. All through Obamas presidency they did their best to retard economic recovery for the working classes to make them increasingly distressed and distrustful of government. And it worked -- across the spectrum. Worry makes people more conservative. As for those who become aggressively angry and dissatisfied, a lot of those will join in mobs to burn their own houses down and spit at them while they burn.

The problem is far less that Republicans will try to take all the credit for good things than that red state governments will block improvements in areas where keeping people dissatisfied and dispirited will benefit their own electoral, and seditious, chances the most.

For us, building's good. There's no real downside. The more the better.

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