Somebody asked what Republicans could have done to improve the economy.
The answer is nothing. Republicans, Democrats, none of that matters to the global economy. Economic globalization has long made the concept of a country irrelevant. Consequently, the political process of individual countries is of no interest to global economic trends.
This process cannot currently be reversed because, even though the economy is punishing, nobody is willing to give up the way of being in the world that makes this economy inevitable.
Let’s say you love the feeling of being drunk, but you hate the hangovers and the terrible health effects. Can you arrange things in such a way that you keep getting drunk daily but do not suffer any consequences? Which political party will help you achieve this goal?
People keep saying “culture wars versus the economy”, but it’s like saying liver cirrhosis versus alcoholism. You can’t stop careening in this economic direction without getting out of the car. We would have to change the entire internal architecture of our being. And let’s be honest, there is currently zero appetite for that.
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