2024 US Presidential Election

[burninmylight]

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BFR said:

You guys crack me up. So many of you have your panties in a bunch over who will win in November. Look, it doesn't matter who wins, your life will be no different, unless your a weirdo, .....:)...or to elaborate....you are a non-conformist !!!!

Hard disagree. Most of the time that is relatively accurate but a Trump 2.0 administration will be different. He can distance himself from Project 2025 all he wants but the people he is going to hire want to implement it. All the people who told Trump no the first time around are gone. 

I used roll my eyes a bit at people who lived in constant Trump drama but after watching him try to overturn an election I do not trust him. 

Also as someone who works in government/politics I can point to hundreds of things that make a big difference in thousands of peoples lives but most people won't notice.

Examples

• Capping insulin prices for seniors,
• More than 10,200 bridges are being rebuilt, repaired, or modernized thanks to President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. (Trump tried and failed).
• CHIPS and Science Act has led to hundreds of thousands of new high paying jobs in advanced manufacturing. If you have one of those jobs you are impacted.
• On a local level, we have been able to get $$ for drinking water infrastructure for our rural towns that cannot afford to fix their aging pipes alone.
• Republicans Farm Bill will reduce SNAP benefits by $30 billion over next ten years. Anyone who needed that program will fill that effect if passed. Due to the current cuts our Foodbanks are seeing need at a higher level than the pandemic. 

Elections matter and have consequences. Most people just don't realize it until they are impacted by policy change or need help from a program.

Earlier in the thread, I mentioned Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan that was thwarted in court thanks to Republican interference. Even though we weren't able to get our debts wiped out as originally planned, I and many I know are still feeling some positive repercussions of it. I mentioned that a friend of mine told me how the records of his SLD were removed from his credit history, which gave him a much healthier credit score and not only increased his purchasing power but allowed him to make lower down payments on appliances and furniture at a time where every dollar counted. In my own life, thanks to the SAVE plan (combined with the public service loan forgiveness program offered by the Federal Student Aid department), I haven't had to make any actual payments on my student loans since 2020 while still getting credit toward monthly payments. This has allowed me to take the money I would have had to use toward paying that debt and instead purchase a new vehicle while giving my older one to my girlfriend who desperately needed one. It's also given me the confidence to make other long-term purchases like a bed and mattress, and start working toward buying a house.

Sorry, I know that was all very anecdotal and a lot to read, but that was my personal story of how I came to realize how much politics and policy matter. I may be hard anti-Trump, but it's not just because he's Satan in leathery skin that is vaguely human, but because I live an an area where so many people would benefit from policies meant to help the common person instead of policies meant to take other people's rights and liberties away while giving tax breaks to the ones who need them least.