I have this feeling about the DEI stuff. I really believed when they’d say things about DEI that they were just trying to score political points. Now we see that, at the top at the very least, their brains have been good and pickled by all the nonsense they have consumed.

So how do you express your rage? Vote the guy out. If the other option is a toddler with matches, oh well.

I think that people find inflation tremendously frustrating even after the rate has returned to normal. Prices don’t drop back down to where they were, so every time they buy something they’re reminded that in the recent past prices felt ‘normal’ and now they are irritatingly high.

Is there messaging that works to ameliorate inflation rage? It feels like only action to address problems could moved the dial: housing, family care, healthcare costs, but those are presidential term defining policies, not something you can slap together at the end.

People’s lived experience of inflation is not the current inflation rate. High inflation does hurt in the moment, but the pain continues after it stops. I’m still annoyed at the prices for some items of food, but I have the good sense to shake my fist at the sky rather than destroy the US economy.

Again, what is your explanation for the world-wide nature of the phenomenon? You don’t have one. There isn’t one. You can evoke whatever pretend far-left apologists you want, but the explanation of the vast majority of the inflation was the end of the pandemic.

I wonder how much it that people are feeling the squeeze of years and years of creeping costs for necessities: health care, housing, child/elder care and everything else. It’s a real bummer and it is tough to point fingers because the problem is everything.(Actually lack of government regulation…)

Turns out people really, really dislike inflation. In my experience it isn’t the rate that matters so much it is just that the deep irritation that everything costs more. That feeling has momentum long after the inflation is gone.

This inflation was a result of coming down from Covid. Full stop.

That is not remotely true. Inflation was a world-wide phenomenon —even in countries where there was no stimulus, and yet I see this view uncritically repeated constantly.

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Johnny Broke :-(

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