One of the interesting....and scary....things about this election for me is this:
That so many people could vote for someone (Trump) who doesn't have a plan for the country (he continues to "make it up as he goes")....and someone who is SO NEGATIVE about the current state of things in the country.
One of the things that I have viewed in my life....is that if you repeat something enough times...people believe it is true, even if facts say otherwise.
For instance...Trump thinks the economy is a mess. And he states it OVER AND OVER. And his friends at FOX News....as long as Obama has been in office....have stated the SAME THING.
Well....as a financial guy, and a "numbers guy" I can tell you it ISN'T a mess...and I can point to numbers and FACTS. I won't tell you it's GREAT...but it's middling....and the employment numbers are REALLY GOOD. Right now...the Gross Domestic Product numbers (GDP) are "soft" AROUND THE WORLD. And in the US....we're going through about a 6 month period of time of "softness". So things aren't GREAT...but they aren't ANWHERE NEAR what Trump is talking about.
The unemployment rate in the US right now is 5%. That used to be considered "full employment".
We just had the 84th STRAIGHT WEEK of jobless claims less than 300,000. That is a record going back to 1970.Furthermore.....that record of less than 300,000 jobless claims is even better than it looks. Because the number of "covered jobs" in the early 1970's was only 66 million. Now....the number of covered jobs is 136 million. So the RATE of jobless claims....to the number of "covered jobs"....is LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT IT WAS IN 1970.
300,000/66 million = .45% (just under 5/10th's of 1 percent)
300,000/137 million = .22 % (less than 2/10ths of 1 percent)
This last week the jobless claims was about 246,000. On a job base of 137 million.....that is FAR BETTER than when the job base was 66 million.
Just as FOX News has....and continues to say..... that global warming is a hoax (they repeat it OVER and OVER and OVER: Hannity, O'Reilly, Stuart Varney, Eric Bolling, etc..etc..etc..)....they also continue to say how bad the economy is.
Click on the link below...and watch the SHORT video clip of FOX describing the monthly Employment report (NOT the weekly jobless claims...but the monthly Jobs report). In that report....the
unemployment rate DROPPED to 5.0%....and 271,000 NET JOBS were added to the employment base....the largest number added for the year (note...these are NOT jobless claims....this is the number of "net jobs added" for the month).
FOX presents it as though it is "disappointing news"....when in fact it was
GREAT NEWS. That is the type of lies that FOX continues to perpetuate about the economy now.....as well as global warming....and anything related to the Obama administration. But FOX does this ALL THE TIME. Great news is bad news.....and bad news is horrible news. If a Republican were President....I can assure you, the delivery would be MUCH DIFFERENT.
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/06/watch-fox-news-stumble-through-outstanding-octo/206671And I believe it answers TO A LARGE PART.....why people are supporting Trump...and they are so loyal to him. Because they are being spoon fed a continual stream of lies by FOX News. Sean Hannity may as well be his press advisor....and almost everyone else on FOX is "all in" for Trump.