The far right is outraged that the Biden administration has implemented socialism; the far left is outraged that they haven't.
The Right understands that positive perception of the economy rebounds to the benefit of the incumbent President and they want Biden to lose to the Republican nominee for partisan reasons.
The far Left understands that positive perception of the economy rebounds to the benefit of the incumbent President and they want Biden to lose to Trump, who they expect to be the Republican nominee, for accelerationist reasons.
The news media likes negative spins because public insecurity drives news media consumption.
You could say I'm one of those people. I want home prices to come down.
If the property-owning Boomers were to respond, in that housing-crash scenario, by voting for Trump, that'd be on them. I'm sick of being held hostage though.
You want me to choose a political leader? How about Mao, to shoot the landlords, or Khrushchev, to build some apartments?
It just sounds like it might be simpler.
I tried starting a lemonade stand and cutting back on Starbucks, but found, if I really wanted a roof over my head, that the thing to do was to SPAC a plausible-sounding company into the indexes.
> moving to a more prosperous area of the world
Those are precisely the ones with the inflated home prices.
> as an alternative to razing the entire social order to the ground and installing genocidal despots in place of our leaders? ... It just sounds like it might be simpler.
I dunno. It'll take 30 years to pay off a mortgage, but the Cultural Revolution was over in about a decade. I might still have some good years left after it ends.