Democrats are hoping Trump will discredit himself with a recession, while the Left sometimes fantasizes about crisis destabilizing capitalism itself. But economic crises cause massive human suffering and have recently redounded more to the Right than the Left.
  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Goodness, if only there was some form of action we could’ve taken which would’ve led to some other result than a diaper-shitting manchild playing Red Light, Green Light with the world economy.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      03·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, but what was I supposed to do? Vote for a brown woman? Are you insane!?

      • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
        11·
        9 months ago

        According to the true patriots and mental giants of the internet you were supposed to vote third party you numpty! There was a memo and everything! Geez!

  • liverbe@lemmy.world
    61·
    9 months ago

    While the schadenfreude is real, I agree with this point:

    With such mixed signals about whether downturns help or hurt our cause, perhaps we should leave recession-mongering to Democrats and focus instead on building worker power under any economic conditions.