Comment by steveBK123
1 day ago
Where were the mass demonstrations in 2008-2010? Sure OWS happened, and I was able to see it up close.. but this was nothing compared to summer 2020.
Why did no one storm the capitol in 2008/2012?
Why didn't crime shoot up and stay up for 2-3 years then?
Etc.
I'm at a loss here, because these all seem like red herrings. What do the George Floyd protests and the Capitol storming have to do with inflation, employment, and the cost of living?
It speaks to the mass anger, on both sides of the political spectrum, in the same 6-12 month period. None of which we saw the likes of in US during the deeper, longer, more impactful near-depression of 2008.
Ok, but your original comments said this:
> And yet all everyone wants to talk about is egg prices going up so we need to vote the bums out and take a turn towards the party of the CEO class.
Whereas now you're talking about things that have nothing to do with egg prices or indeed any prices. So I'm not sure how it's relevant to the original discussion or to the linked article.
People get angry politically about things that have little to do with economics. You could name abortion too. But... how is that even relevant here?
If your question is, why were people more angry about the economy in 2024 than in 2008, I'm not sure that they were. If your question is, why were people more angry in general in 2024 than in 2008, the answer would depend on issues having nothing to do with the economy.
pretty sure they’re referring to the post-housing bubble crash and the brief and ineffective 99% protests
Thank you, yes. Some people posting maybe aren't old enough to remember it, but the GFC was a longer, deeper and more protracted episode with many many years for people to claw back to where they were in 2005-2006.
COVID was deep but brief, for most people in most places things were pretty good within 6-12 months. The 2021-2022 inflation, travel, spending, etc bubble tells us that things clearly weren't THAT bad. We did not have anything remotely close to that recovery from 2009-2013+...