• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    23 hours ago

    People are paying their rent and buying groceries at the expense of everything else in their lives. You have your head buried in the sand if you actually believe people are better off than they were in 2019. Thats what voters remember, that’s why Harris lost. The last thing people who are struggling want to hear is that “inflation is going down. The economy is fine” when they can’t afford their necessities any more.

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      23 hours ago

      You have completely forgot that under Trump people couldn’t even pay their rent and groceries. It wasn’t “at the expense of everything else.” It was not even being able to pay rent much less anything else. It went to “I’ll be dead on the streets in a few months under Trump.” to “I can pay for rent and groceries but can’t save anything under Biden so Biden is worse.”

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        20 hours ago

        This argument has been enlightening. The fact you are downvoted shows that even on left leaning platform like lemmy, on a politically oriented community, people are still deluded.

        It’s fascinating to watch.

        PS: even if all of what the other people are claiming was true (which it isn’t), “do nothing” should still be preferable to “I’m going to destroy the economy so my friends can pick up the pieces: Here’s 5 terrible ideas that will make things more expensive while I raise your taxes to give Elon some subsidies”.