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[–] missingno@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not enough that the rate of inflation is slowing. The problem is that wages aren't going up to match inflation. When people are working two jobs and still living paycheck to paycheck, do you think it means anything to them to tell them that "um ackshually, inflation is down 0.4% from last year!"?

This kind of disconnect is exactly why we aren't reaching voters.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

California voted to not raise minimum wage, too.

Also they kept prison slave labor.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Come on now don't bring up that in one of the "left most" and most populous state in the union that people are actually pretty non leftist, it might contradict some of their feel based arguments.

America is not full of progressives. I don't know why people here can never be convinced otherwise.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

America is not full of progressives.

No it is not and I'll toss another example on there -

Gay marriage was only legalized nation wide by a bunch of unelected judges, and the second most-recent Democratic president "evolved" on the issue less than a decade ago.

US postures as the world's defender of LGBT rights when it's "bringing democracy" places, but it's not great at doing that internally.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

America is a country that lies to itself. It claims we need to make female super heroes flat chested to combat sexism, but then turn around and laugh at the idea of a female president so hard they're willing to give Hitler a second chance.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wages have outpaced inflation recently. Things have generally been heading in the right direction since the pandemic but it came too late and the masses are mostly ignorant or misinformed so the data is irrelevant to them. Its about how people feel as you point out, there's not a rational argument against feelings, people feel how they feel. One side has become very good at taping into those feelings, the other side is talking about data and no one gives a shit unless the data validates what they feel.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't lie to me.