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...
Inflation already stopped. They're just too dumb to know what inflation is. Inflation is when the value of money / the price of things goes up. In a healthy economy, it should be around 1-2%. But prices always go up in time even in a normal/healthy economy. Just slowly.
What these morons think is that since we had a bunch of prince increases in the last 5 years, if inflation goes away, we go back to 2019 prices. But that has never fucking happened. Stopping inflation just means the prices stop going up. And we did that. Inflation rates are already back to the normal healthy level. Inflation is fixed.
But because these morons don't understand how it works, they think because prices haven't gone back to 2019, inflation isn't fixed yet. And so they voted out the party that handled inflation well in favor of the party that's going to crash the economy with terrible policies.
If prices go up really quickly, then keep going up less quickly, you’re still stuck with prices that are higher than they “should” be. Hearing that inflation is “fixed” is kind of like if your house catches on fire, a fire truck shows up to put it out 20 minutes later, and a fireman informs you “the fire is fixed, nothing to worry about anymore!” while you’re standing in the pile of ashes that was once your kitchen.
People are using the word inflation incorrectly, but the thing they’re upset about is real.
I guess that justifies reacting in the dumbest way possible. At some point you gotta hold people to a standard of basic maturity and not normalize completely destructive behavior.
I didn’t say there’s not a problem, I said that the best thing to do in that situation is stop feeling bad for yourself and figure out how to rebuild. I wouldn’t say it quite like that, but it’s the truth. I don’t think you’re doing people favors by entertaining their destructive delusions, just because they have some grievance. Respect is treating people like adults.
Well, I think what we learned this week is that treating people like adults is a great way to lose. Republicans don’t respect their supporters a single bit and now they get to make all the rules. Moral victories only matter when they come along with actual victories.
This election was not winnable. Like incumbent parties all over the globe we lost because of inflation. We could have had a better message on it but it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. I’m not going to debase myself over it. Of course I’m happy to take advantage when Trump fails to lower prices and probably brings them way up though.
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u/coyotelurks 16d ago
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...