[Ididntdothis]

From what I can see the real problem is that most people don’t care about facts anymore. They just want to hear what they think anyway and the political parties are too happy to feed that.

When you talk to left wingers and right wingers about the economy of the last ten years the left guys will tell you it was paradise until 2016 and then everything went to hell. The right wingers will tell you it was misery until 2016 and then the boom started. When you look at stock indices, unemployment or other charts you will see a steady rise over ten years. You won’t even see that the president has changed. But pointing that out is futile. Most people don’t want facts.

[cycomanic]

I think if the current crisis has shown one thing it's the disconnect between the stock market and the economy.

[bytedude]

Looks like the stock market was flat-lining by the end of Obama's term.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-averag...

You may not care about facts, but don't generalize too quickly.

[tom-thistime]

Did you link the chart you meant to link? Clicking on the link, I see one flat year since 2009.

[azinman2]

2008-2016 has a pretty clear trend.

[Ididntdothis]

When I look at this chart I see ups and downs but overall a pretty steady upward trend. I don’t see eights years of Obama misery and then triumph under Trump. That was my point.