@rbreich This is exactly the problem that I only ever really hear you talk about Robert. The elites in Washington are completely disconnected from the struggles of real people, the people they are supposed to represent. The news talks about how the economy is doing - and they nearly always mean the "stock market" which has become nothing more than a casino for the wealthy. I make a six-figure income and it still costs me half a month’s bring-home pay to cover rent. And because consumers are pulling back in this vibecession, my job in a consumer focused company was just eliminated. Laid off at my age with little social safety net available is certainly a cause for some "bad vibes."
Mitch denied a Dem president a Supreme Court nominee for nearly a year. They jammed through a last minute nominee at the tail end of Trump’s presidency. All of his nominees were straight from the Federalist Society who take an originalist view of the Constitution. Which can be read to assume that only "Americans" are rich, white, land-owners. Hence the attack on voting rights that should have "never been expanded to begin with."
This is what we get when people aren’t paying attention. The news is owned by a handful of wealthy companies controlled by wealthy people who have no interest in letting us know what is really going on. The wealthy want us to be too busy working ourselves to death, holding our healthcare as a job-tied carrot trying to afford the basic necessities of life in order to keep us too busy to discover exactly what is happening with our country’s leadership.
One might even call us slaves to the system, a wage slave, if you will.
