Reply #6: WE didn't ignore it. WE were living it!

[Warpy]

The corporate media had their marching orders to ignore, obfuscate, distract, and outright lie about it in order to make the Republicans look a hell of a lot better than we knew they were.

The more they lied, the less people out here in workaday land trusted them, so it all backfired. Now the media aren't trusted any more than the Republicans they were so carefully protecting all those months are.

We knew our jobs were being offshored and that food prices were rising while our wages, if we still had jobs, were falling more every year. We knew the credit card companies were starting to play hardball and that if we did manage to sell the house we were living in, it was going to bring less than we owed on it. We saw upper management living like sultans and telling us they were entitled to even more based on the lies about the economy from the corporate media and we got angrier about that every day.

Hell, WE knew. THEY were the ones invested in trying to lie about it until after the election.