I was just listening in my car to a MSNBC reporter talking about the debate and I find it interesting that they made a comment about how Trump's job is easy because he can just say how horrible things are right now in America and that if you just reelect him, he can fix it to how great things were when he was president. My issue is, "are things that horrible now?". I mean I get there is the whole Ukraine and Gaza stuff (I find it hard to blame America for that), and the prices of food items are up but who here is living a hellish life right now.
People say these things on the airwaves about how horrible life is and I really wonder what or where they are living and why it's so horrible. Many of us live in Texas where the migrant hordes and caravans are allegedly over running us and murdering/raping everyone, yet I haven't noticed any difference here in Texas for the last 30 years really and I have lived in Austin, Houston and Dallas. Trump and the right keep saying crime is up, but the stats show it is actually down. Apparently, the economy sucks yet the stock market is at an all-time high, unemployment is crazy low, wages are up, etc... Listen I know it's not perfect out there, but it isn't nearly as bad as one side is saying it is and it seems like people should be calling that out instead of agreeing with it or not saying anything, so others start to believe it. You see all these polls of people saying the country is doing terrible economically yet almost every person who gets polled will also say they are doing fine if not great. It's fucking maddening