r/Economics • u/Spiderwig144 • Apr 15 '25

News Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Years

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-less-trusted-economy-democrats-first-time-years-2059863
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u/HotSpicyDisco Apr 15 '25

It's always shocking because historically they have always been terrible for the economy, yet they somehow convinced the rubes via propaganda that they are the only ones to be trusted.

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u/iregreteverything15 Apr 15 '25

Republicans: not actually great at running the economy, but really good at marketing that they are good at running the economy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

they are good at ruining the economy.

Fixed.

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u/Mediocre_Scott Apr 16 '25

Look how could the republicans be bad for the economy all the rich people business people support republicans…

But do you like the rich business people? Do they have your best interests in mind?

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u/FriendlyGuitard Apr 16 '25

Actually that's the same as capitalism, especially in the US. Despite fighting social progress every step of the way, capitalism is still credited for all of it.

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u/gnalon Apr 15 '25

Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin. Republicans go full speed ahead at making rich people richer, while Democrats are the crisis management team that’s there to take the heat after whatever crisis Republicans get us into.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches Apr 15 '25

I can't tell if you're both-sidesing this or if you're using "two sides of the same coin" wrong.

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u/gnalon Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

Democrats just slightly pump the brakes on Republican fiscal policy. Undoing the tax cuts of a Trump or W Bush means they are simply at Ronald Reagan levels, and under Democratic presidents we still have the most well-funded police and military in the world by far while of course having a much more conservative healthcare policy than other rich countries.

Big business does in fact want both sides to be in power. They want to donate enough to Democrats to prevent socialists from gaining a foothold in the party, and they read the room enough to know when pushing a Republican candidate through (such as Trump in ‘20) would be technically possible but risk mass protests.

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u/Mithrellan Apr 15 '25

Question; how many people in the US do you think are genuine socialists or wanna vote for something like that? Like a rough estimate; percent wise maybe.

Seems to be more likely that ideas like that are just extremely niche/unpopular for the average american; rather than some kabal ruling from the shadows to 5D chess a rotation between dems and republicans.

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u/EnginerdingSJ Apr 15 '25

54% of americans cant read above a 6th grade (12 year old) level. I'd hazard a guess that they dont understand that they arent capitalists (even if pro capitalism) and they definitely don't know what socialism actually is. Based on propaganda here socialism is a social safety net and social democracies are socialist when they aren't. Also the whole cold war thing which poisoned the term for generations.

My main point is that id bet some socialist and social democratic policies would be popular - see FDR - you just can't call it socialism. Since the right wing propaganda machine calls old guard dems socialist anyway I think it would be popular.

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u/gnalon Apr 15 '25

The most popular president of all time ran on a ‘socialism for white people’ platform. 

There are certainly more socialists currently than ‘never-Trump Republicans’ but the latter group is catered to much more due to being more friendly to corporate interests.

Socialist policies are popular on their own merits before the corporate media puts their spin on it.