• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s what you’re going with? Over half the country is just making poor financial choices?

    I’ll give you that I mixed up core inflation and CPI.

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      8 months ago

      I mean yeah, you yourself are here arguing the wrong facts, and I assume you consider yourself educated. You think a high school graduate in Iowa is going to have received financial literacy education? I severely doubt it.

      I also am actually going with the fact that the data you gave me is highly partisan in nature. Republicans are in another reality man. I think we’d be doing ourselves a disservice falling for their talking points.

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        8 months ago

        They didn’t only survey partisan people. That’s the percentage of people who responded and identified as Democrat/Republican. Political apathy polls also consistently sit at about half the country.

        And campaigning on, “you’re all just stupid” is a very brave move. That alone would answer the question the author so bravely poses and then ignores.