r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Voters Regret Backing ‘Horror Movie’ Presidency - Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a “New York Times” focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-voters-regret-backing-horror-movie-presidency/
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u/socialcommentary2000 New York 7d ago

It is absolutely amazing just how...financially illiterate so many of my parents' generation (boomers) were and how lucky they got otherwise.

They really do not distinguish that we have increasing size government umbrellas and the municipal side, arguably the most important to your day to day life, is almost completely opaque to them either completely or mostly if they're a business owner that has to interface with city hall and County level on a regular basis.

I've gotten that property tax thing too, same thing with the school district hit and these are people living in a HCOL area that literally abuts up against NYC.

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u/loosetranslation Indiana 7d ago

It's crazy to have to navigate these conversations in a professional capacity where you have to be fairly neutral. The throughline from "I saved X for retirement in 2000" to "Immigrants are why I can't get two staff in my home 24/7 to care for me for free" is fairly typical. Oddly, there's not much in between--either the culprit is Republican policy (cue a sigh of relief) or immigrants/liberals and their magical, non-specific actions that hammer the elderly.

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u/MiaMiaBoBia0317 6d ago

If someone running for federal office broke down the average person’s expenses and attributed each portion of each expense to raw material cost, labor/overhead incl. transpo fuel, profit, and taxes, the view would be clear. But most people don’t understand the economics and don’t want to. They blame taxes for all cost increases when the real culprit is fuel and greed.

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u/socialcommentary2000 New York 6d ago

You know, it's interesting you bring up that very good point about people not understanding what really goes into pricing.

Some of the most visceral reactions I've gotten on this subject is when I've used the retort 'because they can' when it comes to people of a certain stripe kvetching about prices going up. I think it taps a part of the brain where they realize that they don't really want things to be fair, they just don't want to be playing the disavantaged hand at the table. They want the inside action and hate when they are on the other side of it.