QOTD -- Facts And Fiction

"1. Under Biden's stewardship, the U.S. economy has generated 12.7 million jobs over 27 months, according to the “mighty” jobs thread of Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg.

"2. The Biden economy is creating opportunities for all, not just the few: The Black unemployment rate was 4.7% in April 2023, the lowest ever recorded and an incredible comeback from 16.8% in May 2020, according to The Washington Post's Heather Long.

"3. Since 1989, the U.S. economy has netted 49 million jobs. Ninety-six percent of those jobs have been created while Democrats controlled the White House.

"4. In the first quarter of 2022, the national uninsured rate reached an all-time low of 8%, with about 5.2 million people – including 4.1 million adults ages 18-64 and 1 million children ages 0-17 – gaining health coverage since 2020.

"5. New business applications have soared during the first two years of Biden's administration, with 5.4 million new business applications filed in 2021, the highest of any year on record, according to the U.S. Census Bureau." -- Kerry Eleveld in Daily Kos providing "Five facts every Democrat should know about Biden's record economic growth."  Because we live in a deeply ill-informed country, with powerful "fake news" organizations generating irrational fear and foreboding, most people surveyed in polls continue to cling to the myth that Republicans do a better job on the economy.  Democrats had better find a way of cutting through the clutter if they're going to correct that dangerous narrative -- and soon.

BONUS:  Here's the cognitive dissonance we're talking about (our emphasis) --

Biden inherited from Trump an economy badly damaged by the coronavirus pandemic, but the public sees the former president as a better economic steward than the incumbent. In the poll, by 54 percent to 36 percent, Americans say Trump did a better job handling the economy when he was president than Biden has done during his presidency so far. 

Here's one more apropos quote for you, from H.L.Mencken (Notes on Democracy: A New Edition): 

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

Democrats are going to have to work hard to prove Mencken wrong in 2024 and beyond.