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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA plummeting market is the only thing that will get the attention of rabid Deplorables.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dow+live&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS724US724&oq=dow&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0l4.3044j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8For everybody else you have my sympathy/empathy.
elleng
(130,974 posts)as they affect others; there are other things that make them deplorable, and a cratering stock portfolio is not one of them.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)not realizing of course the implications for them ....
elleng
(130,974 posts)they're concerned with other things, and don't read or listen to news about stock markets.
The 'wall,' that's another thing.
S.& P. 5002.4%
DOW2.16%
NASDAQ2.78%
IMO, it's related to China's reaction to dumpster's tariff game.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I am suggesting a plummeting market will get their attention.
Watch the markets in July when Mexico elects a leftist anti-imperialist president.
elleng
(130,974 posts)they have no idea.
still_one
(92,219 posts)18th congressional district special election with the Lamb victory made a point of that:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17120692/conor-lamb-pennsylvania-special-election-health-care-voxcare
still_one
(92,219 posts)business. It should be pretty obvious to them by now that the ignoramus in the WH is not only undoing the economic recovery from the republican induced recession, but actually leading us in to a potential Great Depression.
Where the OPs characterization of the "rabid deplorables" will start paying attention, is the loss of healthcare and the definite war against Social Security and Medicare that has been on the republicans hit list for decades
erpowers
(9,350 posts)They will likely just blame it on the deep state. They might go as far as to blame it on President Obama. They might claim that this is all a part of the weakness of the market he left Donald Trump and this proves that everything Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and the Republican Party was saying on the campaign trail was right. Finally, they might blame it on Congressional Democrats and claim the Democrats refusal to work with Donald Trump is the reason for the stock market falling.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)China is targeting products produced in areas that voted strongly for the orange idiot.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)is the only thing they care about!