Still, having come to power promising to restore affordability, the new crop of Democrats are soon to discover that there is not much they can do over the next couple of years to alleviate angry voters’ stress over pricey gas and groceries, exorbitant mortgages and unaffordable healthcare.

Democrats would do well to recall that the affordability strains that helped deliver them to power are not dissimilar to those that delivered the presidency to Trump two years ago. And they could again quickly become their enemy.

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean "fixing the economy" is a very complicated thing but there are some braindead decisions that got us here that can very easily and swiftly be solved.

  1. Kill the war in Iran
  2. Kill the tariffs

Boom, we are at least back to where we were.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Except that neither of those things snaps us back in time. The war in Iran has had some major reprecussions economically and the US dropping it won’t magically fix those reprecussions. Best case Iran starts charging a fee for goods passing through the strait, worst case they actively block goods going to the US.

    The terrors have destroyed trust between long standing trade partners. Why would they just go back to trusting the US?

    Are those good first steps? Yes. But in no way will we be back to where we were.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago*

    Really!? You mean we can't time travel!? Thanks Obama!

    the US dropping it won’t magically fix those reprecussions. Best case Iran starts charging a fee

    It shouldn't be difficult at all to negotiate opening the strait as a contingency of ending the war. No trust required.

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