All the racist stuff and culture war BS is a distraction. Economists studied the data and found republicans are bad for the economy, which is what everyone who’s lives through their policies would tell you. They help out their wealthy donors, which is why they get the “good for economy” label but that’s a lie and myth.

Many analyses look at which party is best for the economy. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Democratic presidents since World War II have performed much better than Republicans. On average, Democratic presidents grew the economy by 4.4% each year versus 2.5% for Republicans.

Republicans are just bad at running the country on so many levels.

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    “Which party is better for the economy

    Fuck those 114.6 million people in the US who were food insecure in 2023 source Didn’t they know The Economy was booming? Maybe if they knew they wouldn’t be starving to death/ facing less than optimal purchases of healthy food.

    Which party is better for the actual citizens who live here not the 759 Dragons

    *Edit: My reply was meant to be a knee jerk specifically to the title of the article - leading with the question about how which political party is good for the economy, as if humans are second to “line go up”. The answer is the same, obviously, but how it was framed makes it a money focused question, rather than a “citizen’s issues” question.

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      In terms of what the article is arguing, you could just as easily swap in the term ‘society’ in place of ‘the economy’ and the rest of the facts hold true.

      Blue states are far from perfect, but they drastically out-perform red states in terms of health, education, income and environment.

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      The Democrats are better by far.

      Free School Lunch Child tax Rebate Job Creation Wealth tax Lower middle class taxes Stood with the striking workers just last week Aren’t responsible for any of the major economic crashes in my lifetime

      The Democrats aren’t perfect, I could go for an anti corporate third party. But of the two choices they are head and shoulders better. Especially as long as they’re up against the only American president to lose a trade war.