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Sayeth the brocislists: "But Biden Same!"
Wealth inequality increases the same whether Democrats or Republicans are in office.
And minorities and women's rights disappear entirely if Republicans are in office. There's a bigger picture here.
Getting tired of this obnoxious centrism that "both are the same!" when they're clearly not. That being said, Biden is still the lesser of two evils and one that people can still live with.
Exactly and we have been pushing back against it since 2016. It's a malignant lie that will be a major contribution to the fall of American democracy.
By what metrics‽ Democratic admins consistently have been responsible for job growth (and good paying jobs too), the launching of redistributive programs, and at the very least protecting welfare programs that america's poor rely on.
Even the man who tried to neoliberalism the democrats into oblivion, Clinton, still put his back into an honest hard fought attempt to expand medicare and medicaid, if not completely socialize american healthcare.
If you think shit's equally bad under both parties, you don't have a point worth considering, you're just far up enough your own privilege that you can't see the differences that can be as serious as life and death for everyone else.
The gini index. Clinton is a big reason for this. He passed trade deals like NAFTA that screwed American workers and made wealthy business owners even richer. Republicans tried to get it passed for decades, but only Clinton was able to.
You mean that index that keeps insisting we live the comparative lives of pre revolution french peasantry?
Last I checked I'm not being shaken down by private collectors for a tax because I kept salt from last year I didn't use.
How does it do that? It's commonly accepted as the metric for measuring inequality, I'd like to know if there are better metrics, enlighten is.
Wage ratio and PPP
NO, that is not true. If the GOP takes power there will be no more democracy or checks on that growth.
Whether you know it or not you are repeating propaganda designed to suppress Democrat voter turnout.
You can't say anything you disagree with is propaganda. The comment you replied to is absolutely correct and needs to be repeated loudly for people like you that don't like facts.
https://www.axios.com/2018/06/05/income-inequality-blue-red-districts
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B
https://www.cato.org/commentary/how-government-creates-wealth-inequality
You can argue that Republicans increase wealth inequality but democrats cause just as much, if not more. The facts just don't agree with you.
"It's not propaganda, see!" Posts literal propaganda
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
Here you go, try doing your own research
Wouldn't have to do "their own research" if yours was good from the get go.
https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
It literally is true, you just don't want to research it and would rather form your opinions based on your emotions instead of factual data about where our money goes.
dO YOuR rEsEarCH!
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
It's not difficult.
the consequences of the inequality do change by party even if the inequality doesn't.
Go ahead and enlighten us.
Idk it certainly seems that the top 1% had a great run 2016-2020. Not so much 2008-2016. Great run going up to 2008 though.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
Wow this is a shitty graph. What more can you expect from the religious right think tank of Pew Research.
Why the hell are they going in 9 year buckets? Why not standard decades, or president? Or, for that matter, single years and a trend line.
Why does the first bucket start conveniently after Black Monday but still partway through HWs term?
Why does the second bucket soften the blow of post 9/11 slowdowns and the dotcom burst by ranging from the the first half of Clinton’s second term up to just before the 2008 recession? And of course, includes most of the tail end of the dotcom buildup.
Why was this article published in 2020, graph normalized in 2018 dollars, and conveniently stops in 2016?
Do people not think critically about the data they ingest? This what “just asking questions” should be…why, exactly, is this graph so particular? Because it really seems to me that it is deliberately cherry-picking data to show to drive an agenda.
I choose this graph specifically because it disproves his point that the rich did not do well after 2008, which is obviously false. Wealth inequality grew under Obama, it was not some liberal magic that stopped it during that time.
It's organized that way because it's a section about the Great Recession.
Here's another example for you: https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
Oh no, looks like it did get worse.
I didn’t say they didn’t do well after 2008. I said they didn’t do as great as they did in the years prior.
Reading comprehension.
The comment I posted the graph to did, that's the whole point and it is true wealth inequality grew after 2008.