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For the common people the economy isn't the countries GDP or some DOW Jones, or the value of their currency. Stock market values are useless for the middle and lower class when a small minority owns over 90% of them.
If left wing and progressives really want to address this issue then they need to stop using these kind of figures. They need to address what people actually care for. Everyday costs.
Yup. If the elites (ie: economists, politicians, etc) don't start paying attention to the majority of us who are barely making it, why should we believe them when they say 'but the economy is doing well'?
But headline figures don’t reflect how most people experience the economy. Prices are 20% higher than before the pandemic and, more importantly, prices for essentials such as food are up 28%.
They need to address what people actually care for. Everyday costs.
Costs versus wages is a better metric to target. Costs always go up unless there's deflation. Wages should go up to match.
The left aren’t using those figures. Centrist neoliberals who the media class masquerade as the left use those figures.
The elites have been doing very well since 2010. They froze wage increases and broke the long standing history of them raising with inflation and pocketed an enormous amount of extra profit as a result. Most don't benefit from GDP growth now, they just get poorer due to inflation further eroding their stagnate wages. GDP hasn't been a measure that matters to the average person in 14 years.
I blame social media algorithms. Delete your YouTube history and see how fast it suddenly tries to radicalize you.
Right-wing propaganda is funded by capitalists on all aspects of social media in tandem with the aims of the Republican Party. Right now there really isn't any counterbalance
Yep, I see it with my own video feed. I'll watch a video with the faintest right wing connection, say something about a game studio struggling with trolls. Then I'll start getting videos suggested bitching about "woke games". I tell it not to suggest those videos and they'll go away for a little bit, but eventually it starts trying to creep them back in. The algorithm is constantly trying to push people to the extremes.
This is horribly true. I hardly ever use youtube. I only use it to see followups on the war on ukraine. The quality of the videos that are shown to me is repulsive. I cant understand how anybody could fall for that shit.
Titles like "<famous person> spoke the truth on <center left periodist> face: shut the fuck up, you are just a dirty communist" all in caps because they are obviously needed. Tons of titles like that. This shit is being crafted by someone.
Slava Ukraini
I don't have it and I keep being a non-radicalized idiot.
Neoliberalism utterly failing to staunch the ransacking of the working class due to capitalism
”Why is the right gaining momentum???"
The right wants nothing more than to accelerate the process, so I can't see how that connects.
To someone politically literate, that much is clear as day.
For the average person, they are easily tricked by false promises that the right will do the opposite. :(
Bad thing happens.
Side A says bad thing is actually good and wants to continue bad thing.
Side B says bad thing is bad but actually wants to continue bad thing.
Yes yes I don't think that's relevant to the bit I responded to.
I disagree. The neoliberalism of the Democratic Party is very relevant to the rise in Fascism we are seeing
I'm not claiming otherwise.
Post-1989 globalist liberalism failed to improve QoL, pure and simple. Across the western world, people have watched international trade deals do nothing but siphon jobs and wealth out of their homes
The issue isn't international trade, you'd have these exact same problems with no trade happening at all. The issue is unregulated (or poorly regulated) markets. So many monopolies and duopolies, and the most extreme income inequality. They need to start taxing the fuck out of the billionaire class and breaking up corporations like it's an Olympic sport and they're going for gold. Bring back 90%+ taxes on the billionaires.
~~"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"~~ "the issue isn't liberal globalism, the issue is unregulated markets."
Of course no one is arguing on halting all international trade but the same brainrot idealogy that encourages maximum globalism also encourages finding the least-regulated and most profitable trade partners. Until the entire globe can adopt a different paradigm, you can't reconcile those two components as not being inextricably linked. There's no possible scenario where global liberal capitalism doesn't produce unregulated, monopolistic, wealth-concentrating trade.
"Blaming the economy won't cut it."
blames the economy
I for one blame the misinformation machine, the radicalizing echo chambers, and the reactionary and inflamatory nature of social media that the internet has propogated over the last couple decades.
Fascism is capitalism in crisis. People are overwhelmingly disillusioned with the neoliberal status quo (for good reason). The problem is that neoliberalism always keeps the fascist monsters on the leash, while smothering anticapitalist movements entirely. In times of crisis like now, people look for an alternative to the same bullshit politics that got us here, and the only viable alternative is fascism. Lot's of people want the liberal parties to be a real alternative, but they are wholly beholden to capital, and thus unable/unwilling to represent a more humane radicalism as an alternative.