Tariff Gambit Bets Americans Will Swallow Higher Prices

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Propaganda

Propaganda is powerful.

I have caught a lot of heat here on DU the last 4 years for pointing out the facts of the Joe Biden economy. Biden's economy was the first time in generations that the middle class saw the gains they made. Gains in real income, gains in wealth, gains in many other metrics. The middle class actually gained on the rich during Biden's term. But the propaganda is so strong that all people paid attention to was bad news. Inflation was exaggerated and covered non stop, even when incomes were rising more than prices for the last few years of Biden's presidency. Every bit of bad news was posted here on DU, and then I'd get accused of being callous to the suffering simply by pointing out the data that clearly showed working people were making gains.

My point is, the propaganda worked on many DU posters, and it worked on most of society in general. People were voting for Harris despite the Biden economy, not because of it.

And you saw it in poll after poll of the public where people talked about inflation and the horrible economy, but never about their own raises or improving finances. In fact occasionally you'd see polls that essentially said, "65% of Americans think they're worse off because the economy is bad and getting worse, but 80% of Americans say their own finances have improved."

I am almost 53 years old, it took my entire life to witness the gains Joe Biden delivered for working people, and I'll be dead and gone before we every see anything close to it again. So sad. Joe Biden was the greatest president for the working class since FDR and even his own party failed to give him much credit.

Now back to propaganda. It will work in reverse too. People will be essentially saying in polls, "Sure, I lost my job, my savings or gone, and I lost my house, but I'm still better off because just look at this great economy..." That's the power of propaganda, and for the Trumpists, it will be 5 fold, these people will literally be standing in the soup line wearing tattered rags telling everyone about how Great America is now.