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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The cost of living seems to be a major point.

Whatever reason they had to vote for orange dictator: They are in for an ugly awakening.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now we'll get a slightly lower COL for a short period before rents go up even higher not because of taxes for social services, but because of greedy capitalists.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think this is actually a valid takeaway for the Democrats for the next election:

You are on the clock to Noticeably Improve People's Lives (NIPL) during your term, or your braindead electorate are going to flush the country down the toilet post-haste. While investing in long-term gains is important, all those investments will be sabotaged if you can't improve people's lives in a way they can actually tell, and critically, communicate it to the aforementioned braindead electorate so that they know the effect you had.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s not completely in the Democrats’ hands: https://lemmy.world/post/22075727

And there were noticeable improvements, but people were convinced there weren’t.

Fighting the propaganda is the bigger battle now.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Noticeable is in the eyes of the beholder. A lesson hard learned from my own career - no one will care if you do good things if you don't market them.

I guess that could be called a propaganda battle.