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Back to episode — Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25

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art of the solution. So that's my reframe is you can certainly ask a person their own opinion, but it would be a bad system to start with. What do you think about that stranger's shirt? Bad way to start. All right. Now, I'm trying desperately, not desperately, but I don't want to get dragged into the actual debate. You know, I think there's plenty of room for people to have different opinions, b…

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explain why some of the public still thinks that the economy is bad. It could be because they're just being blocked from seeing the evidence that is good.

Now, I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but if you watch news from the right leaning places, it will universally say, "Man, this economy is good." From inflation to employment to GDP can't beat it and they'll have numbers to back it up. Weirdly, Democrats could do the same thing and do with their argument that the economy is actually bad. So they've got their own set of alleged data that would show that the economy is bad in a bunch of ways.

So is the economy good or is the economy bad? Well, let's put a pin in that question and rather we look at the fact can people be persuaded by being told real facts about the economy or will they be so Dunning-Kruger and so biased that even if they had access to really reliable information that was the opposite of what they had currently believed, would they change their minds?

And the research suggests that they would change their minds and that if they had seen what they believe to be accurate information that said that the economy is doing well, that fairly drastically people would say, "Oh, I guess the economy is doing well." But if they do not have access to that new better information, then they would not change their mind, which would suggest that the mainstream media might know that and that's the reason that they don't emphasize Trump and his graphics showing everything getting better.

Now, let me use some numbers. In a survey conducted in mid December 56% of US voters surveyed said they believe the economy is getting worse while only 37% said it was getting better and this is mid December then once voters were informed of the facts and again you could debate whether these are the real facts or not but let's say the Trump facts the number sli

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pped and the percent who said the economy is improving jumped 25 points from 37 to 62 while pessimism plummeted from 56 to 33. So the allegation here is that the mainstream media has to hide the truth because the truth would tell people that the economy is doing well. Maybe, maybe. The other possibility is that the Democrats have some data of their own. And since most data is fake, even if you ag…

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