I'm a lot less well off than a lot of my friends, and among every group of friends, in addition to my family, I'm known as the borderline communist one.
That said, the events of the last week has had some effects that I had't anticipated. The same people who were posting about how great Bidens policies were leading up to the general election now seem pissed off about not just the Syrian airstrike, but the general lack of inaction on the $2000 checks.
Of course, to anyone on here, we expected this from Joe. But in my circle of late 20's friends who still have a ton of debt to pay off; who assured me that "we can push him left," for those who treated me like a madman for even considering not voting for Biden (I didn't).... The facade seems like its starting to crack.
We were just going to college in 2008 and didnt really follow the news. This last year has been our first real crisis. And the Democrats control everything. I wouldn't expect someone making over 100K a year to be changed by this or anything but it seems like this is different.
I dont even know what my main thesis is, but the fact that Biden approved an airstrike that cost god knows how much money before he gave money to struggling americans seems to have hit a nerve.
it won't matter, they'll still just vote for the blue team because they can't get the notion that voting doesn't change anything, and even if they do finally get it through their skulls, the media just has to make it look theoretically possible that enough people are satisfied even if it's not true. we're probably fucked for the next generation or two. shit is just tiring.
Hopefully China is able to power through the propaganda and become the city on the hill that libs think the US is. Guess they're pushing against like generations of sinophobia though.