The Politics of Perception

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins to discuss how the world has changed as we near the two year mark of the pandemic. Is remote work good, and who is it good for? And as our political leanings increasingly shape our perception of reality, what does the future of politics look like? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k-f57lQXHqg Follow Derek Thompson: https://twitter.com/DKThomp Follow Plain English: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/id1594471023 Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So there was a recent consumer confidence survey that said that 87% of Democrats think the economy
0:06.7	is good or the positive sentiment, while only 37% of Republicans did. And you noted that this was
0:15.2	the largest gulf in terms of perception of the economic trajectory between parties that you
0:23.2	would ever see 50% but then even more troubling is that this wasn't only on one side or the other
0:33.4	that back in 2019 the gulf actually cut the other direction where Republicans thought the economy
0:40.6	was great and Democrats thought it sucked by a margin of 47%. So the University of Michigan
0:47.6	has been doing this consumer survey for like 60, 70 years. They basically ask a bunch of people
0:54.0	how do you think the economy is going? And since the 1980s they've been breaking it down,
0:58.2	Democrat, Republican, independent, right? Between 1980 and 2017 there had never been more than a
1:06.9	30 point gap between the way Democrats and Republicans saw the economy, right? And since 2017
1:13.4	it's just gone completely berserk that if Republican is the president just about other Republicans
1:19.8	say the economy is great and a lot of the Democrats say the economy is bad and then when a Democrat
1:24.0	is president all the Democrats say that the economy is good and all the Republicans say the economy
1:28.4	is bad. That's only a slight exaggeration but that's basically what we started to see. We used to
1:34.4	partially decide whether or not we thought our party was doing a good job by first looking to
1:39.4	the economy. But now we decide if the economy is good by first looking to the party that's
1:44.9	in power. Ideology is the pair of glasses that everybody is wearing and as a result you might not
1:53.0	as well even ask people how good the economy is. You might as well just tell them hey do you like
1:57.6	Biden or not? Because once I hear the answer to that question everything else that I ask you about
2:03.2	reality will simply flow downstream of that comment.
2:25.3	This week on the podcast one of the people I turn to to understand economics, technology and the
2:31.1	media. He is the author of Hitmakers, the host of the podcast brand new, Plain English and the
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