President Joe Biden is regularly promoting signs of a strengthening economy and easing inflation, but when it comes to the indicator closest to home, it’s a tough sell.
Honestly it amazing me the greed and utter stupidity of politicians and capitalists. Like there's gotta be some bullshit public-private deal Biden could workout with food producers to freeze and rollback prices. Just print money and give it to them. Is this ideal? Obviously fucking not, but the only other alternatives are doing nothing and exploding a (already exploded) campaign or nationalizing certain farming sectors and driving prices down that way or just doing a price freeze across the board. Obviously the latter isn't happening because somehow Richard Milhous Nixon was a better president than Biden. Nationalization is apparently impossible because "muh cumminism." And they're continually deluding themselves that some numbers on a chart showing GDP or whatever matters to literally anyone.
People judge if their life sucks based on pretty simple metrics like what percent of their pay goes to housing, what goes to food, electricity and other necessities. If pay goes up 10% and groceries 30% people notice, and they aren't exactly happy.
In a two party system the only "punishment" you can deal to a sitting party member is to vote for their opponent. Which of course with Republicans just worsen things... but they were getting worse anyway! So, sort of doesn't matter in the end.
Like ants in a giant bathtub when the plug gets pulled. Those closest to the hole already went in and are dead, homeless, in prison, etc. Around and around the drain we circle, some get sucked in first while the rest on the slowly speeding up outside of the vortex get more and more nervous about that impending black hole.
Honestly it amazing me the greed and utter stupidity of politicians and capitalists. Like there's gotta be some bullshit public-private deal Biden could workout with food producers to freeze and rollback prices. Just print money and give it to them. Is this ideal? Obviously fucking not, but the only other alternatives are doing nothing and exploding a (already exploded) campaign or nationalizing certain farming sectors and driving prices down that way or just doing a price freeze across the board. Obviously the latter isn't happening because somehow Richard Milhous Nixon was a better president than Biden. Nationalization is apparently impossible because "muh cumminism." And they're continually deluding themselves that some numbers on a chart showing GDP or whatever matters to literally anyone.
People judge if their life sucks based on pretty simple metrics like what percent of their pay goes to housing, what goes to food, electricity and other necessities. If pay goes up 10% and groceries 30% people notice, and they aren't exactly happy.
In a two party system the only "punishment" you can deal to a sitting party member is to vote for their opponent. Which of course with Republicans just worsen things... but they were getting worse anyway! So, sort of doesn't matter in the end.
Like ants in a giant bathtub when the plug gets pulled. Those closest to the hole already went in and are dead, homeless, in prison, etc. Around and around the drain we circle, some get sucked in first while the rest on the slowly speeding up outside of the vortex get more and more nervous about that impending black hole.