There are absolutely lots of people that don't understand that down 50% and up 80% means you just lost 10%.

Yeah, my stocks are almost back to where they were at the beginning of the year, and it's almost 100% due to Trump messing w/ tariffs. I'm not rich or anything, but seeing my retirement savings fluctuate at Trump's whims doesn't feel great.

Biden's administration was a dam holding back fascism. It was never going to make the river disappear but it definitely slowed things down and if we continued that path we eventually would have real permanent solutions.

People blame Democrats but we haven't had 50 of them in the senate without caucus in over a decade.

So I've been going on and on about how "democrats bad" is a huge narrative being pushed hard on Lemmy. Always with the caveat that criticism is warranted, when it's specific and targeted.

This is specific and targeted. This is how you properly criticize Dems. But that wouldn't jive with the people seeding that other narrative. They don't want to be helpful. They're not interested in how to get other people to vote. Their objective is the opposite.

Maybe the Dems should switch their incremental improvement to the fact that they need billionaires to buy them votes before their dollars turn into rubles. Yeah, the number is bigger. Look how much good that does the Russians.

They should be supporting both Elon-style directly, and indirectly through accepting tax policy to allow us to do big things. Find smart policies to support medical school so that we can push for more doctors/nurses the way we did for Software Devs from 1995-2015. Create actual medicare for all to finally get rid of the odd tie between your employer and your healthcare. Support real freight so we can have fewer semis destroying our roads and creating traffic. Support mass transit so we need fewer roads and can have more walkable spaces with more available housing. (Mass transit enables realistic high density housing.) Change Trump's stupid ass tariffs to be a response to climate change, now that we've developed better tech to see where the CO2 is coming from.

Raise the federal minimum wage. Reduce the work week to 36 hours, with real teeth in overtime requirements and salary exemptions. Recreate the Civilian Conservation Corps to make sure everyone who's willing to put in real work can find a job, even if AI doesn't like their resume.

Healthcare, traffic, and work are the biggest things everyone in the country has to deal with. Address the things that actually affect people's lives. This is how your dollars stay dollars instead of turning into rubles. The billionaires might have less of them, but they're worth more. When people are less desperate, everyone's lives are better.

I mean, yeah