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> during the 1970s and 1980s

If we go back long enough, the democratic party opposed Abraham Lincoln. We have to put a line somewhere.

> According to Biden

To be clear, I'm not a US citizen. If you think telling me that Biden lied is a shocker, you are wrong. I do think that in general he lies less than Trump, though.

But to answer the spirit of your not-in-very-good-faith question: GDP means nothing if all the wealth is concentrated in 10 individuals. Unemployment means nothing if most folks need to take 3 jobs and food stamps just to make ends meet.



I'm putting a line at the 1970s and 1980s and then explained how things changed immediately after that and that's when they started abandoning the working class.

> If you think telling me that Biden lied is a shocker, you are wrong.

I'm not saying you should be shocked. I'm giving strong evidence that your assertion that the economy was bad is wrong. What is your proof that the economy was bad?


The Republican party also finally turned away from racism as an explicit election strategy circa 2010, which probably helped it with non-white working class voters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Unfortunately, immigrants and other things were substituted in as enemies to hate.


Why repeat what I already said?




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