On "Kitchen table ....issues of tariffs=taxes=inflation, Medicaid cuts, etc."
AND IT WAS IGNORED
Too many people here in the U.S. are, by nature, intentionally blinding themselves to such esoteric and "academic" (although obviously important) issues, in many cases, attributing the warnings to "hyperbole". IOW, they will only respond to "gut desires", "tribalism" and a primordial sense of being a part of a group that has similar expectations. They may complain about "inflation" but have no idea what it really means and will suddenly get defensive if "labeled" as some "lower class" entity if they can't afford something.
It took a horrible economic calamity under Shrub (literally leading up to 750,000 people laid off PER MONTH) to propel Obama into office in 2009, and a pandemic, that not only killed that many jobs but eventually killed that many people, to push Biden over the finish line in 2021.
The sad coda for this is that people are literally willing to take A LOT of "pain" before they see the light because they convince themselves that they are invincible or at least "better than" someone else.
This is what "voting against your own interests" has become.
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