trump thread

[grue]

ok so here's the thing

1/3 (just going by that article) of american workers live below a living wage

this is disgraceful

in speaking to a crowd while answering questions she said "a vast majority"

this is wrong, hyperbolized through demagogy, unnecessary because 1/3 is already atrocious

then the rhetoric is "is this justified within the current broader context? no, look at how rich these people are who also hire under those values"

the wrapping of her whole argument is "many people make too little, and it's unfair given how much is profited from that"

understanding this is to me far more useful to understand how she might contribute to policy drafting than whether or not she was correct in exaggerating. I think this because I know she isn't drafting that by herself. Now if she presented a bill based on these erroneous assumptions, then I'd say you were completely correct. But there's a distance between what's said and what's done in politics - I understand that you do not like this, but it is how things are done and I don't know if there's a single rep that does it differently. My sympathy towards her is based precisely on that it seems to me she is being far more scrutinized over her politicalness than others who do the exact same thing. And it ends there, if it matters