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    What’s the Lesson of the 2024 election?

    ​What’s the Lesson of the 2024 election?

    According to exit polls, Americans voted mainly on the economy – and their votes reflected their class and level of education.

    While the US economy has improved over the last two years according to standard economic measures, most Americans without college degrees – that’s the majority – have not felt it.

    In fact, most Americans without college degrees have not felt much economic improvement for four decades, and their jobs have grown less secure.

    The real median wage of the bottom 90% is stuck nearly where it was in the early 1990s, even though the economy is more than twice as large now as it was then.


    Most of the economy’s gains have gone to the top.

    This has caused many Americans to feel frustrated and angry. Trump gave voice to that anger. Harris did not.

    The real lesson of the 2024 election is that Democrats must not just give voice to the anger, but also explain how record inequality has corrupted our system, and pledge to limit the political power of big corporations and the super-rich.

    The basic bargain in America used to be that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you’d do better, and your children would do even better than you.

    But since 1980, that bargain has become a sham. The middle class has shrunk.


    Why? While Republicans ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans[/url]) steadily cut taxes on the wealthy, Democrats abandoned the working class.

    Democrats embraced Nafta and lowered tariffs on Chinese goods. They deregulated finance and allowed Wall Street to become a high-stakes gambling casino. They let big corporations gain enough market power to keep prices (and profit margins) high.

    They let corporations bust unions (with negligible penalties) and slash payrolls. They bailed out Wall Street when its gambling addiction threatened to blow up the entire economy but never bailed out homeowners who lost everything.

    They welcomed big money into their campaigns, and delivered quid pro quosthat rigged the market in favor of big corporations and the wealthy.

    Joe Biden redirected the Democratic party back toward its working-class roots, but many of the changes he catalyzed – more vigorous actions against monopolies, stronger enforcement of labor laws and major investments in manufacturing, infrastructure, semiconductors and non-fossil fuels – wouldn’t be evident for years. In any event, he could not communicate effectively about them.

    The Republican party says it’s on the side of working people, but its policies will hurt ordinary workers even more. Trump’s tariffs will drive up prices. His expected retreat from vigorous anti-monopoly enforcement will allow giant corporations to drive up prices further.

    ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/08/democrats-harris-election)​[/url]

    Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His newest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist.

    #2
    Bernie Sanders said the democrats abandoned the working people and the working people in return abandoned the democrats
    Last edited by cropgrower; Nov 14, 2024, 08:03.

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      #3
      Perhaps the lesson should be the following:

      Try campaigning in the right country next time, Canadian farmers don't get to decide the US election.

      Calling the opposition Hitler, Nazi and Fascist doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.

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        #4
        So A5 you don't care who is elected US president? What a laugh you are!

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          #5
          "While the US economy has improved over the last two years according to standard economic measures, most Americans without college degrees – that’s the majority – have not felt it.

          In fact, most Americans without college degrees have not felt much economic improvement for four decades, and their jobs have grown less secure.

          The real median wage of the bottom 90% is stuck nearly where it was in the early 1990s, even though the economy is more than twice as large now as it was then.


          Most of the economy’s gains have gone to the top."

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            #6
            Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
            "While the US economy has improved over the last two years according to standard economic measures, most Americans without college degrees – that’s the majority – have not felt it.

            In fact, most Americans without college degrees have not felt much economic improvement for four decades, and their jobs have grown less secure.

            The real median wage of the bottom 90% is stuck nearly where it was in the early 1990s, even though the economy is more than twice as large now as it was then.


            Most of the economy’s gains have gone to the top."
            And yet the U.S. continues to improve GDP per capita, while in Canada the opposite is true. I think Chuck2 you need to worry more about what is going on in Canada. Read the article below.

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              #7
              And then I read this article. Now Trudeau’s ministers are confiscating three quarters of a business and redistributing it.

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                #8
                I don't need to search the internet for an article that supports my beliefs.
                I know I'm indirectly affected by US politics but there is nothing healthy I can do.
                I don't call elections, but the last three were not a surprise.
                What class and education level am I f***head.
                Last edited by blackpowder; Nov 14, 2024, 09:13.

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                  #9
                  So in other words, your words, you have learned nothing chuckles.

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                    #10
                    I think the people are sick and tired of declining standard of living created by the green woke wasteful, misappropriated spending. The garbage economy being created by the lunatic left-wing is being turfed. Get it Chuck?

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