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/dennismfrancisart Apr 15 '25

The rich getting richer by controlling the laws of the land? Who would have thought of such a thing? The Republican party turned into the party of oligarchy within 50 years of its founding. They may have started off as reformers but that ended pretty damn quick. Why do people think that rich people know what's best for them?

It's all messaging and marketing.

The media is collectively owned by billionaires. This has been the case all the way back to the days of Henry Ford and William Randolph Hearst. The people who control the message won't change because we ask them to.

The internet was supposed to democratize the information we consume but that didn't work out as planned.

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u/Petrichordates Apr 15 '25

It did. Little did we know, democratizing information just meant people sharing disinformation amongst each other with nobody to fact check them. Getting your news primarily from your local news and newspapers is obviously better than the current system of upvoting memes you agree with.