Fascinating little window
- Almost 60% of respondents wrongly believe that the country is in a recession (it hasn’t been since 2020)
- 55% believe the economy is shrinking (it is growing)
- 49% say unemployment is at a 50-year high (it’s close to a 50-year low)
- 58% said the reason the economy is worsening is due to Biden’s mismanagement
That should tell you that it’s not some politicized reaction, it’s the actual lived experience of the Average Joe. Go out on the street and ask people, and you’ll get the same reaction. If humans are all unanimously telling you one thing, and your metrics say something else, is it more likely that the humans are all collaboratively lying, or that the metrics are wrong?
Right now on front page I see only 3 posts with 20+ comments, and none are about Biden or the economy:
(actually, it looks like this comment pushed this post to 20 technically)
That’s one interpretation, yes. There are others.
So I actually meant the /c/politics “front page”; I should have used some other type of word.
Here’s the list of stories currently on the politics sub:
Just say you think it’s all a psyop campaign when people disagree with you. 🙄