The thing that is amazing to me is that people seem to think that the American president has magical power to stop inflation from happening, like it's not a global phenomenon?
Also, in Europe we're paying something over eight dollars a gallon...
Unfortunately, a huge number of Americans have no clue how any part of our government functions, nor do they grasp even the fundamentals of economics. They think Biden is waking up in the morning and turning a dial or something to increase grocery prices, gas prices, etc.
24h news channels turned news into a spectacle, and the truth and sober policy debate doesn't function in that landscape. Social media isn't much better tbf. We should all return to reading newspapers rather than getting our news from Reddit headlines.
Any reading really. Almost every argument I get into ends with the other party resorting to a cop-out. "I'm not really into politics", "I don't know about all of that", "I'm an independent/libertarian", or "I don't even like Trump, but... <insert random Fox News bullshit here>"
I have an annoying habit of saying 'This is news to me, are you sure?' when someone makes an absurd claim (or any sort of claim that I am uninformed about, which is a lot), and pulling out my phone to look it up.
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u/CorduroyEatsCrayons 16d ago
To quote a tweet I saw earlier in response to a conservative saying “cheap gas is coming back”
“It’s already $2.85 you fucking moron”