I wish there was a way to get better options though. A vote for Kamala would have just barely kicked the can down the road
None of this shit is going to help the economy.
Eggs are more expensive already and the current admin has admitted they aren’t going to do anything about it.
But the media won’t be hammering on the egg price story, and people won’t feel like it’s as bad.
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I do wish the gripe wasn't the egg thing - that one in specific is because they're intentionally killing hens to keep us safe from disease. last thing i want is for them to make the egg price go down and everyone gets sick.
when the tarrifs happen we will have plenty of economic disaster to point to.
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when the pitch for the two candidates are "things stay bad" vs "i promise to change things to make your life better (lie)", it kinda makes sense
i don't agree with trump voters. frankly i hate them. but it's understandable at least
i hope they don't end too many species along the way
My take is its less left/right and more useful/useless. Obama won big because people thought he'd do something.
Trump promised a lot of change and boy he's certainly doing exactly that.
At the end of the day though, I think the time of party politics is over. Whatever Americas gonna be like next its not gonna be this
The Democratic Party has been putting forward establishment candidates since at least Jimmy Carter, the only exceptions being Bill Clinton and Obama. And notably, they both were, like Trump, a bit of a black swan in party politics.
When you vote for Kamala over Trump, you show them your preferences, and they'll run and govern in a more methodical way. The next batch of candidates gets even better.
But Trump winning means the next batch will be even worse.
Pretty wild to suggest that continuing stability, growth, and reindustrialization is the same as tearing everything down.
From the perspective of tens, if not a hundred million, what that meant is continued decline, increased instability and broken promises, because that's the long term trend they're living and the one they were promised would continue.
By the way, it's not true that it was entirely stopped by Republicans - for every vote there were Democrats that went over the line, and the Democratic leadership failed to whip or primary them, which the voters rightly or wrongly will assigned the blame for the Democratic party.
Additionally, the fact that Trump appointed judges that were able to block them is in no small part thanks to the Democratic party being too ineffectual to do the same in the Obama and Biden administration.
Unless the Democrats make a point of recognizing what they could have done to play the game better and get their campaign promises through, the average voter will, rightly or wrongly, simply interpret this as the Democrats not being willing or able to follow through, and penalize them in consequence. When the Democrats willingly slow down and let internecine fights prevent themselves from helping people while the Republicans just ram their agenda through, voters will inevitably interpret this as the Democratic party making the conscious decision to break their promises, which is not entirely correct but not entirely false either.
To avoid this, Democrats would have had to be candid and say that they would likely not pass their electoral promises even if they had a majority (see: Obamacare), or somehow fix their party and get their shit together.
And Kamala was even more corporate
the dems are fighting to give as few boons as possible to the people and as much to their donors and we tell them when the line was crossed.
2. we're not getting another batch lol