There's a lot of wrong-headed analysis about why Trump won so easily, but i put it down to a fear of internet censorship by normal people, exemplified by Covid.

That's indeed part of it, but my take is the real reason is simple economics. People are seriously struggling financially. In spite of what the Biden administration was saying, inflation is off the charts. I just found out yesterday my health insurance premiums for next year will go up by at least 14%. 14%. And Biden wants us to believe that they have inflation 'under control', meaning they're getting down to their 'target' of just 2.5% or whatever the fuck it is.

Inflation should be 0 or less. If GDP is going UP, prices should be doing DOWN. Supply and demand. If technology is making us more efficient, we should be working less to maintain the same standard of living. It's just math. But that's not happening. Tech is making us more efficient. It is allowing us to produce more, yet prices go up and we're getting poorer.

And notice that nobody discussed this during the campaign. Harris and the dems were a total shitshow. What a fucking disaster. You know what her response to inflation was? Her explanation? It was that some bad actors where price gouging.

Prices are going up due to the US being 35 Trillion, with a T, in debt.

Now, Trump will continue with lowering of interest rates to put cash into the economy, and everyone will initially praise the miricle recovery. But by doing so (and it's already started; the fed cut rates today), by cutting rates, they'll be printing more money and pumping it into the economy, causing further inflation.

But they have to cut rates, because the government has to pay interest on its debt. And what interest does it pay? You got it, the rate it sets. So, to curb inflation, it should raise rates, but it can't raise rates for too long becuase it has to borrow to pay interest on the debt, and it pays its set rates on those bonds. It's a debt hole, a crisis. And its very, very serious, and it's what nobody wanted to talk about during the election, particularly the braindead democrates.

The republicants aren't any better. They have the Christan Nationalists running the show while they, those in office, try to pretend they have any control of what's going on. I saw one comment today pointing out that the Christians are going to make it hard for Kennedy to enact his vision.

And the wars going on -- they are being paid for by printed money. Wars of attrition used to mean that the war ended when too many soldiers died or the king ran out of gold. Now, the king just prints more money. War now impoverishes the entire world, albeit slowly, by slowly debasing currencies. Long term inflation at this point is inevitable.

It's a shitshow. I voted Libertarian. Fuck 'em all. I don't agree with all the Libertarian stances, but at least they have explicitly stated positions. I think Americans need to vote third party to send the message to these two other parties that we do have options. I would have considered the Green Party but they support vacccine mandates and I absolutely do not.

We do have choices.