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Do you think the US economy is going gangbusters or collapsing ?

Your answer likely depends not on whether wages and employment are rising but on
whether you side with Democrats or Republicans,
with the latter currently reporting that economic conditions are worse than in the depths of Covid.

This is what political #polarisation looks like:
a disease we’re regularly told has spread across advanced economies,
posing the biggest 21st-century threat to our democracies.

Which is odd, because it’s not.
Recent researchspells out that the ⭐️US is an outlier on polarisation,⭐️ defined as the extent to which you feel more negatively towards political parties other than the one you support.

Examining 12 OECD countries over the past four decades, it confirms the US’s polarisation surge.

But there was no uniform pattern. Five countries (including France and Switzerland) had more modest increases, 👉while six saw polarisation fall back, including Germany and the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/19/us-voters-are-increasingly-polarised-over-politics-but-brits-are-far-less-stubborn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other