The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.
The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue-collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones”.
None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.
That, too, did not happen. People moved away, marriages broke down, depression soared and, locals say, a handful of people took their own lives.
“The Democrats and the Republicans are all a den of crooks. Only one side lies about being crooks, and one doesn’t. If you’re going to be a crook, I’d rather know it than be lied to.”
If you’re going to be a crook, I’d rather know it than be lied to.
Of all dumb reasons for voting for Trump, this one takes the cake.
“I might be forcibly sodomized to death in a dark closet, but at least I’ll know who’s doing it by their voice!”
They aren’t wrong. The dems keep refusing to follow through with their broken promises. People are fed up with the establishment. I wish they had a different choice than Trump, but the DNC refuses to listen to their base and keeps propping up neoliberal center right candidates who only listen to their donors.
This is not the voter’s fault, it’s 100 % Kamala and the DNC.
Almost as if the DNC prefers a candidate like Trump over an actual left of center candidate who will follow through with the economic platform of the dems.
They are wrong. The Republicans lie constantly about being crooks. They literally call themselves the “law and order” party all the time.
It’s bullshit motivated reasoning by someone who doesn’t want to admit the real reasons they went for Trump.
That’s called cutting off your nose to spite your face. There are a lot of things to legitimately criticise about the Democrats. But on every single one of those issues the Republicans are far far worse.
dems keep refusing to follow through with their broken promises
Dems have faced blockades from a GoP-dominated legi branch for something like all but 4 months of the last 40 years. Despite this, they offer a plan that can help and hope for the legi support to make it happen.
GoP has been united in fucking over the 99% and lying about it; Every fucking time since prez Reagan.
Blame the Dems, though.
Look, I know things are hard, but that’s a really narrow take. At the very very least the democrats would not tear down what social services you could still claim. This is like shooting yourself in the foot, and being like “fuck that hurt, maybe it will be better next time?” Instead of “oh shit, better not shoot myself in the foot again”.
I rather shoot myself in the foot so that I know for certain my foot will be horrifically mutilated.
Or, “maybe if I shoot myself in the other foot, it’ll be better this time”
The same foot again.
And this idiot’s vote is dozens of times more powerful than that of any voter in any major city in the country.
That guy is 200% certified dumb fuck
Betras said Trump’s success was a symptom of the Democrats’ failure to address the catastrophic impact of international trade agreements on manufacturing jobs in the US – a failure he pins on Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – and its further failure, under Obama, to take any meaningful action against Wall Street or the big banks after the housing collapse of 2007-08.
Whatever else you think about the article or about Ohio voters, these are valid and accurate criticisms in my view.
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
Except no one’s laughing about that in this case.
Putin sure is, as is Winnie the Xi.
“We just want a change, a change in the weather,” a retired aluminium worker wanting to go just by his first name, Paul, said as he sat with a group of friends in a cigarette shop in Struthers, a down-at-heel overwhelmingly white Youngstown suburb once known for its thick clusters of bars, pizza parlours, strip clubs and illegal gambling joints.
Oh, change you’ll get. Even less health care, workers rights and job protection. Poisoned air, water, and salted earth. Weather events like you couldn’t imagine. Not to mention the fact that you may lose people in your life, members of your family or people you know thanks to the republican hate campaign.
Guess you get what you fucking deserve. Too bad about everyone else though.
Only one side lies about being crooks, and one doesn’t.
And which is which? I can’t tell which the speaker wants me to think. I think that says more about the speaker than it does about me. I can’t tell if they’re trying to shoot themselves in the foot on purpose.
I assume they mean the Democrats are lying about not being crooks, but given that the article is about Trump breaking promises, that makes him the liar and obvious crook. Which means he’s the preferable candidate somehow?
I guess it’s just comfortable lies vs. difficult truths. Times change, if you don’t change with them you’ll be left behind in a ghost of a town.
Yeah, the electorate also punished Carter for being straight with Americans about oil dependence and energy security. And instead of following the path of energy transition, they went with Reagan who promised Americans everything while undermining the middle class.
A lot of voters are basically like children that want to be lied to.
What truth is the Democratic party telling again? They’re crooks all the way.
This is the state of the American electorate. Just a total lack of critical thinking.
