Political Memes

I wish Democratic messaging was more visual with shit like this.

This graph should be presented by Katie Porter across battleground states.

We have an education crisis and we need the teachers to lecture the students.

This (especially if you extend it left and right) mostly illustrates that the president is not the economy.

Bush very famously presided over the 2008 financial crisis, but perhaps less famously went out of his way to work with Obama to help him deal with it during the transition: https://presidentialtransition.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/11/How-Bush-and-Obama-Collaborated-to-Address-the-Great-Recession.pdf

And you can see Obama acknowledge that in documentaries of the crisis.

Obama got the benefit of the rebound, as did Trump.

And, as much as he tremendously bungled it, there was no way for Trump to stop the national debt from skyrocketing during Covid-19. That's what's supposed to happen in a crisis (and be paid back in better times).

What I'm getting at is that I don't like the idea of anyone calling the economy "Trump's economy" or "Obama's economy." It assigns way too much importance to the president in most cases. And the onus of balancing the budget is more on congress, even if the president is an influence here.

The left should just maintain the spending set by the previous rightwinger - that way they can actually DO some spending on services whilst aiming to creat a step staircase graph - showing an escalation every time the rightwing get into office.

Right now we see only rightwingers get the funding they want, whilst services get continuous cuts, we need to see leftwing spending to create a staircase graph that can easily be blamed on right wing leaders.

Showing the deficit is better than debt, it more clearly shows the president's budget.

Trump took Obama's shrinking deficit to a growing deficit, and that was before the pandemic.

I don't think there has ever been a Western democracy that was better off due to conservative politics, only worse.

As an example, take Germany, which had over 30 years of almost uninterrupted conservative leadership (including 16 years of Merkel) and is now serious lagging behind in digitalization, modern infrastructure, military, social services, education and more.