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"we've been here before"
Flashbacks to 2016
And that doesn't alarm you? I can't be the only person who remembers how in 2016, the democrats refused to acknowledge any problems and instead tried to rely on republicans being unelectable while they fuckin yucked it up with Goldman Sachs and Co., can I?
Honey, no
2016 was when we could have had brunch and Orange Cheeto Mango Man came around and stole our mimosas
"Hopefully trump wins because he'll be the easiest to beat"
"Those polls saying trumps gonna win are garbage because all the respondants are old people on landlines"
"Sure everybody's saying they hate Hillary and are literally telling us they just wont vote but when the time comes they'll line up for her"
"How could anybody have possibly foreseen this coming"
Russia's too busy with Ukraine to overturn the elections this time!
This is probably r/politics, they don't remember that far back
or if they do, they just blame it on literally everything but material conditions
If by literally anything but material conditions you mean people who explicitly said they won't support neoliberal policies ahead of time.
"THE ECONOMY IS AMAZING PIG YOUR GROCERIES ARE UP 200% YEAR OVER YEAR THINK OF THE PROFITS YOU MAGGOT LOOK AT THE SHAREHOLDER PROJECTIONS!"
DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW THIS BOOSTS THE GDP??
Are they trying to convince us? Or are they trying to convince themselves?
Yes.
“I don’t know why you’re complaining,” I say to my fellow scavenger as I pull a shabby jacket off a frozen corpse in the alley behind an abandoned Applebee’s, “the economy is doing great!”
Amazing for who? 
Listen, Fat, there is no gat dang war in Ba Sing Se 
Ok I refuse to believe libs are stupid enough to genuinely believe that telling people "actually the economy's great you just don't know how politics works" is still a viable electoral strategy.
They have exhausted their benefit of the doubt, they are literally controlled opposition with the express purpose of getting republicans elected.
My interaction with libs so far seems to be that they think it works. "Line go up" is good, when I say "but things are more expensive" then they talk about "perception of economy" and "creating a story, which takes over" or whatever. Yeah I'm creating a story, it's an autobiography called "apples cost twice as much now and I am no longer able to keep the doctor away a day"
Statements are accurate, if you are in the top 1-5%.
"I was Obamas campaign manager (the one he almost lost), and ignore the fact that we are doing badly, continue campaigning as usual, give us more money please, give money me want money now give me money please money me"