Racism, willful ignorance, tribalism or willfully uninformed? Why do Republicans believe the...

"Is that how Republicans operate ?" - yep.

"Are trump supporters unable to go online or understand basic graphs?"

- Trump supporters range along a gamut from Plain Stupid > Wilfully Ignorant > Morally Bankrupt (Evangelicals) > Overtly Racist. The common denominator is that they are fully prepared to believe any old shit that they are told. Facts are irrelevant in their new world order. It's all about 'owning the Dems'. Nothing else matters.

Budwick · 70-79, M

Bottom line.
Current Unemployment Rate - 3.6%
There are more jobs available than people to fill them.

Obama's numbers were never easy to nail down. Here's a synopsis from fact check [pretty friendly with the left.

[quote]The numbers are nearly all in now. What they show about what really happened during the eight years that Barack Obama was president is sometimes different from what politicians claimed.

The economy gained a net 11.6 million jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to below the historical norm.
Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.0 percent after inflation. The gain was 3.7 percent for just production and nonsupervisory employees.
After-tax corporate profits also set records, as did stock prices. The S&P 500 index rose 166 percent.
The number of people lacking health insurance dropped by 15 million. Premiums rose, but more slowly than before.
The federal debt owed to the public rose 128 percent. Deficits were rising as Obama departed.
Home prices rose 20 percent. But the home ownership rate hit the lowest point in half a century.
Illegal immigration declined: The Border Patrol caught 35 percent fewer people trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico.
Wind and solar power increased 369 percent. Coal production declined 38 percent. Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel dropped 11 percent.
Production of handguns rose 192 percent, to a record level.
The murder rate dropped to the lowest on record in 2014, then rose and finished at the same rate as when Obama took office.
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Unemployment? They don't know or are embarrassed to say.

TexChik · F

It’s called facts . Something libs tend to ignore when they are on the wrong side of them .

bijouxbroussard · F

Basically, yes. Trump won his supporters largely because of fear tactics and racism. That was his platform, after all, about “taking America [b]back[/b]” (from the [b]black[/b] guy) and “making America [b]great[/b] again” (circa 1950). So the people who support him are willing to believe anything he says. They still believe Obama is foreign born, his birth certificate didn’t mean anything to them. Trump is free to be openly racist, which frees [b]them[/b] up, too. That’s why hate crimes have been increasing.

curiosi · 61-69, F

Record number of people unemployed and on assistance is NOT recovery. As was the case in 2010

xixgun · M

[quote]Why do Republicans believe the economic recovery began in 2017 instead of 2010?[/quote]

Because it did, and I'm no Republican.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

What a load of crap

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

Why do Democrats post loaded, biased questions like this, then pretend they are impartial or neutral? Just say what you mean. You hate the Republicans because Democrat propagandists told you to.

gregloa · 61-69, M

What were you 10 years old in 2010?
Like you know anything about it. Where were you working? You’re just another FAKE NEWS worshiper.

breezyboo · 31-35

I have stopped trying to apply logic and reasoning to Republicans. It's a useless cause.

I am waiting patiently for Democrats to fuel their base and come out with a strong opposition that fuels not only blue states but red as well.
So far ... crickets.

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Harriet03 · 41-45, F

You only just realised? 🤦‍♀️

Pfuzylogic · M

trump has so many smoke and mirror tricks I can’t even capitalize his name.
It is all pure politics.
I thought reagan was bad
then came W
I thought W was bad
now we have donnie.