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it seems people have been upset with the direction of our country for YEARS...and yet, we just sit back and take it...keep the same people in offices (or at least very similar), keep bitching and complaining, but nothing changes/gets done...
Albert Einstein : “
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
My take on the chart:
1. The overall average appears to be roughly 40% positive and 60% negative. There will always be people with victim mentality that blame our country for their own failures. They'll never say that our country is headed in the right direction, so they skew the numbers.
2. It appears sentiment was very poor during the peak of the financial crisis.
3. Sentiment grew stronger as we exited the financial crisis, but it grew worse as people saw how slowly we recovered in the coming years.
4. Eventually we did recover and sentiment got better.
5. I'm not sure why we saw a spike in 2013. I'm probably forgetting something.
6. The first three years of Trump's presidency actually resulted in better sentiment than the majority of Obama's presidency.
7. You see a huge spike as the pandemic starts, then sentiment starts to slowly improve.
8. You see another spike as social unrest breaks out after the George Floyd murder.
9. You see sentiment improve to its best level in years as Biden wins the election, but it quickly reverses as the pandemic doesn't magically disappear and inflation takes hold.
My biggest takeaway from the chart is the fact that people care more about the economy than anything else. Sentiment improved under Trump, despite the fact that most people didn't like him. He probably would've won a second term if it weren't for the pandemic.
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