The Most Dangerous Bias in Today’s America: Detroit, remains a troubled place, certainly. But for the first time in a long while, its trajectory is clearly going up, not down.

[robosmith]

The Most Dangerous Bias in Today’s America: Detroit, remains a troubled place, certainly. But for the first time in a long while, its trajectory is clearly going up, not down.

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As Detroit’s improvement is real, so Trump’s Detroit event was fake.

Trump’s team, and some stenographic news reports, described the event as taking place in a “Black church,” leaving the impression that he spoke to a church congregation. One of Trump’s talkers claimed that 8,000 people attended the event in a building that holds only a few hundred people when all the pews are full, which they weren’t. Trump’s media allies insinuated that the crowd was mostly made up of Black worshippers; the TV cameras showed a crowd that seemed at least half white and was apparently nonlocal.

The contrast between the reality of reviving Detroit and the falseness of Trump’s self-advertising symbolizes a challenge for voters and the media in this year’s presidential election. Trump tells stories that are not true. “Trump Portrays Rampant Crime in Speech at Black Church in Detroit,” was how The Washington Post headlined its story about the visit. Yes, that is what Trump portrayed. But the portrayal was deceptive.

The deception is one, though, that we are primed to accept. Our brains do not always adapt as quickly as the world can change. Nationwide, in 2024, crime is dropping; inflation is subsiding; real wages are rising—and rising fastest for the lowest-paid workers.

Yet the good news is taking time to register. Trump is racing against that time, with some success.

The United States has suffered two severe economic shocks in the past two decades: the Great Recession of 2008–09 and the pandemic shutdown of 2020–21. Recovery from the recession was slow and uncertain, and was followed by a wave of social troubles—the opioid epidemic, rising crime, and other pressures that Trump exploited in the 2016 election.

Recovery from the pandemic shutdown, however, has so far been rapid and strong. Has the memory of the first shock distorted our perception of the second? Or is some other barrier preventing us from seeing the world as it is?

The election of 2024—and the fate of American democracy—may turn on whether we can look past outdated stereotypes to grasp current realities.

Biden learned from Obama's political mistake, and lack of support from Congress, to accelerate recovery, at the expense of short term inflation.

Of course, by the standard of RepubliCONS, Democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

[ironstone]

1 hour ago, robosmith said:

The Most Dangerous Bias in Today’s America: Detroit, remains a troubled place, certainly. But for the first time in a long while, its trajectory is clearly going up, not down.

Biden learned from Obama's political mistake, and lack of support from Congress, to accelerate recovery, at the expense of short term inflation.

Of course, by the standard of RepubliCONS, Democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

I hope you're not blaming Republicans for the sorry state of Detroit and the state in general. Detroit is a longstanding Democrat stronghold is it not?

What else is happening in Michigan lately that might be raising eyebrows?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/14/death-america-protest-michigan-whitmer-tlaib-silent/73288232007/

 

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, ironstone said:

I hope you're not blaming Republicans for the sorry state of Detroit and the state in general. Detroit is a longstanding Democrat stronghold is it not?

Where in the cited article does it say ^this?

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Trump tells stories that are not true. “Trump Portrays Rampant Crime in Speech at Black Church in Detroit,” was how The Washington Post headlined its story about the visit. Yes, that is what Trump portrayed. But the portrayal was deceptive.

The deception is one, though, that we are primed to accept. Our brains do not always adapt as quickly as the world can change. Nationwide, in 2024, crime is dropping; inflation is subsiding; real wages are rising—and rising fastest for the lowest-paid workers.

1 hour ago, ironstone said:

What else is happening in Michigan lately that might be raising eyebrows?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/14/death-america-protest-michigan-whitmer-tlaib-silent/73288232007/

 

Off topic.

[Legato]

16 hours ago, robosmith said:

 

Of course, by the standard of RepubliCONS, Democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Well. if doing what you shouldn't and not doing what you should then yes.