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Wouldn't it be lovely if either party actually cared about inflation? 24 years ago, I recall diesel being $1.25/gallon, and hamburger meat at a little local gr
by bell-cot 5d ago
Wouldn't it be lovely if either party actually cared about inflation?
24 years ago, I recall diesel being $1.25/gallon, and hamburger meat at a little local grocer for $1/pound any time they had a sale.
Now, even going to Costco, their ground chuck is $6/pound.
- swish-mish 5d ago[dead]
- Zigurd 5d agoWhether they can be credited with caring or not, one party didn't follow Netanyahu into war casually, even fecklessly.
- aplummer 5d agoThe whataboutists will tell you Bernie would storm the front himself.
- bell-cot 5d agoAnd the other party was (among other faults) amazingly complacent as major landlords colluded at scale - via RealPage software - to send apartment rents skyrocketing. If you look at the timeline, and the demographics of voters who lost enthusiasm for Biden between 2020 and 2024, it looks like a whole lotta the Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck decided to vote their pocketbooks. Vs. back in '72, when Biden was just getting elected to the Senate, Pres. Nixon was a noisy anti-inflation zealot. (Not saying Nixon was sane, nor legal...) Since Nixon was re-elected with >60% of the popular vote - in spite of negatives like the Vietnam War - I'd say that the Dem's failure to follow a so-obvious winning reelection strategy was exactly what handed Trump the opportunity to make the decisions which you so strongly dislike.
- Synaesthesia 5d agoWould be great if either party cared about issues which affect ordinary Americans. But they're extraordinarily alienated from the population.
- baggachipz 5d ago"both sides" is the reason we're in this shit show. It's like comparing a wart to stage 4 skin cancer.
- krior 5d agoWould be great if americans actually cared about those issues instead of complaining online all the time.
- markvdb 5d agoCurrent US leadership has very much failed ordinary people in the US and allied states. Incompetence or malice? Both is also possible...