• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Doing absolutely nothing meaningful about inflation is why our next president is going to be an overt and unapologetic fascist. (Granted, they’ll come up with a better name for it.) The foreclosure crisis and Obama’s failure to address it properly is what got Trump elected the first go-around.

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      1 year ago

      The recession happened in 07/08 under Bush. Obama didn’t take office until January 2009. Trump won because these two private parties control everything about our election process and one of them put up a candidate that almost nobody liked to the point that a failed businessman and reality TV star was somehow more appealing.

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        It doesn’t matter when the recession started. When you don’t do something about a preexisting problem, it becomes your policy.

        Millions of people lost their homes when Obama was president, and Democrats were somehow shocked that people who lost their homes wouldn’t vote for someone campaigning on continuing Obama’s policies. (Policies that included criminalizing the poor and demonizing Occupy.)