Minorities win mayoral elections often enough, yet we've only had one as president. Obama galvanized a huge sector of typically nonvoting minorities to show up in droves that H. Clinton and Harris could not. Bible thumpers are more comfortable with a black man in office than a woman or a gay man. I agree that Pete got that rizz though.

Sorry to break it to you Mr pi guy but politics and money are two sides of the same coin so you really can't separate that.  I know that you're just being an idealist though.  

Also, i think that the vast majority of americans are going to be disgusted with Trump by the end of office. He's really going to be showing his ass. JD Vance may have a difficult time campaigning in 4 years time to set up a Democrat win.

The inflation of 2021-2024 was caused directly by Covid stimulus. If it was just a matter of the U.S having a more generous stimulus spending during the Obama and pre-Covid Trump periods, then the U.S would be a leader in the pack among developed countries (as most countries took more austere positions after the Great Recession.) But the U.S was about middle of the pack when it came to inflation. 

So yes, increasing the money-supply and injecting it into the economy through stimulus packages is definitely the cause of the 2021-2024 inflation, but what other choice did the U.S government (or any other national government) have? Remember, both Democrats and Republicans voted for the Covid stimulus packages, including the PPP loans, robust unemployment insurance, and the stimulus checks. People were locked down with not much to do, so they went into a spending frenzy. Supply chains couldn't keep up without their former workforce. You were bound to get inflation. But the alternative situation would've been much, much worse. We would've entered a severe recession with unemployment rates in the double-digits and a slow recovery. More people would have died from Covid than those who did. So the inflationary spending was a lesser of two evils, and nobody really was questioning it (other than a few fiscal hawks) in 2020. It's only after Biden was elected that you started to see the rest of conservatives (other than fiscal hawks) start to question it. 

Essentially what the Fed has been doing, they got inflation under control by raising interest rates so the cost of borrowing money (business loans/credit cards/mortgages) went up and decreases demand but did so in a slow and steady process in order to prevent a recession and mass layoffs.

Now that inflation is close to its ~2% goal, they have started to lower interest rates, but also in a slow and steady process so demand doesn’t explode and cause inflation to kick back in.

Inflation has stabilized but prices are still up from the high inflation of 2022/2023 and they aren’t going to come back down, the way to lower the cost of living is by having wages grow at a faster rate than inflation which is what had been happening over the past year.

The most recent data I believe is inflation +2.4% & wages +4.1% year over year. We need to see this continue for the next few years and people will slowly but surely feel their purchasing power increase.

The problem is that most people don’t understand the economy and don’t want to hear that it’s a slow process that gradually gets better, they want to hear a simple and quick fix. Trump went with promoting tariffs and Harris went with cracking down on price gouging. For many people their view on the economy might be as simple as “Trump’s a business man and prices were lower under him and Harris is the current VP so why aren’t her and Biden already doing what she’s proposing?”

I’ll admit @Chrkeller was right. Democrats are terrible messengers and they need to simply hammer down on economic issues that resonate with people who are struggling, basically what Bernie Sanders was trying to sell.

He supports progressive social issues but his main message was always about things like increasing wages, strengthening unions, bringing back outsourced jobs, fighting against the establishment, etc. In an election year where the cost of living was the main concern that people had, this message would likely have done much better.

When people feel like the economy and their quality of life is good then you can focus on social issues but when people are struggling to afford rent and groceries, trans issues and abortion aren’t going to sway them.

Thank you and nothing but respect.  You deserve credit.  And hopefully things flip in the mid terms.  As a country we are on the wrong path.  

I disagreed or would have disagreed on the basis that "Democrats abandoned these groups". I don't think that's true. 

But Democrats as a whole are horrible messengers on a good day. Although I personally think a lot of that comes down to Democrats having an inherently more complicated platform. For one obvious reason trying to appeal to more kinds of groups. 

Chrkeller mentioned Buttigieg, right? 

I was going to point out that Tammy Baldwin won in Wisconsin despite being openly gay and a woman, and did better than Harris did. 

I don't know if Buttigieg would have made a difference, but I think he's a very good messenger. 

More evidence that this election could have been a lot worse if 1. Biden didn't drop out or 2. Kamala didn't run as strong of a campaign as she did (infra-structurally.) 

This along with this tweet I shared in another post, strongly hints that the Democrats would have had to run an exceptional once-in-lifetime campaign to win. Just sucks that this happened at the same time Donald Trump was running on the GOP side. If only we didn't have a FPTP system. 

Do you know what would be extremely funny. If he actually started fixing things for Americans, like the cost of living, homelessness, women's rights that have been removed lately and so on. I'm watching people melt down again like 2016 and like...ffs, he was in before and the world didn't end. People are pushed to live in fear of "the other side" and trump being Hitler. I'll eat my pants if this man starts showing signs of a fascist regime, he's the biggest attention whore the world has ever seen, all he wants is love and he hates the fact that people hate him. He'll do whatever it takes to win as many peoples favour as possible, even actually making the country better.
People outside of America, us Europeans have more to worry about than the Americans themselves, we're the ones who are gonna get fucked by foreign policy changes if he's intent on changing things. All I'm saying is it's done with now, give it a chance and see where this leads to, if it leads to ruin push back at the prick but if it leads to success don't berate the bastard, give him what he wants. Give him praise.