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In response to
"I think for a lot of folks, "the economy is good" isn't actually lining up with actual life. So there's frustration. Is it misplaced? Probably. "
by
colin
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I’ve been saying this for more than a year. -- (edited)
Posted by
i.b.! (aka starrynut)
Nov 6 '24, 01:16
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it’s a repeat of too many people (of course, it’s not all trump voters) feeling like traditional politicians aren’t caring about them; and it was no small part of how he won the first time. (also why bernie got a lot of the votes that he did.)
it was my biggest fear, before bigotry and misogyny came into bigger play. I tried to find my first “it’s the personal economies, stupid” post and found november of last year, but I think it started earlier.
I was so worried that I wrote and posted to various dems, including comms folks, practically begging them to do more. biden/harris didn’t start talking about grocery/regular goods prices in any kind of regular way until shortly before joe dropped out, and it didn’t get going more strongly for harris/walz until recently. if they’d gotten ahead of it better, results may well have been different for that subset. maybe not enough to change the outcome, but at least it wouldn’t be as maddening because of too little too late.
(and many people aren’t caring about 401ks, they’re caring about feeding their families with retirement savings a dream. they somehow have forgotten how bad things were in trump’s first term, don’t believe all the bad predictions, think their state will protect them, just aren’t generally paying full attention - I don’t know what all because I care enough for multiple people; but I do know how many people are most impacted by day to day things, and that’s impactful.)
I just posted elsewhere to someone earlier re: how I wish they’d get ahead of grocery and goods prices impacting people, like they’ve done some re:
pharma and gas.
even with great economic stats, they’ve missed actively addressing what is hurting people, starting with day-to-day expenses caused by record profits for too many grocery store chains and food manufacturers. “it’s my personal economy, stupid.” when we can see that target and walmart and limited others have kept prices at least mostly reasonable, it’s easy to see what’s up. (next up, maybe massive layoffs that are still having an impact.)
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