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The most bonkers parts our current political environment is there like zero mention of common issues that "regular everyday" people face (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Housing
Student Loans
Medical Care
Child care/The cost of children (assuming that's something you want to do not making a value judgement)
Education
Wages/"JOBS™©®"/"THE ECONOMY™©®"
Inflation/Cost of Living/Value of currency
Just the political issues we all face but are the best "hot button" issues

All that sort of stuff. I'm not minimizing stuff like Palestine of course, but I don't recall in the seemingly endless 2020-2024 election campaign. I don't really think I heard any sort of real "kitchen table issues". I feel like even the most basic political issues have been obfuscated or ignored. It feels like these very political issues have been removed from the sphere of political discourse.

I don't know what my larger point is, but it feels strange to think that for example I haven't heard a single mention of something like higher education costs for example. This isn’t just a dunk on Democrats either, though it is worth saying “get fucked losers”, but I think since about 2020 I haven’t heard a damn thing about healthcare or housing in a real political way from the big two or the media in general.

Again this isn't to meant to minimize any other real problems either, not trying to "this is more important than that", just saying I haven't political people talk about politics all the while not being able to escape the political dimension

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the even further odd thing here is that what is discussed, which is mostly geopolitics, public opinion also doesn't seem to have any impact either. Like value neutral so much geopolitical stuff polls horribly with the general electorate and it's still done

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Like value neutral so much geopolitical stuff polls horribly with the general electorate and it's still done

I was thinking about that too. Like everyone hates the endless war that just sits in the background our everyone's mind. No one likes it, but the general electorate sort of passively approves/is okay with it. I think about how everyone who works at Defense (which really should just be called "Offense") firms all know their job is making things worse but the pay is good so they keep going because they need to fed their family and pay their rent.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

opportunist antiwar-ism is probably the biggest reason for the fash gaining so much ground electorally in Europe the last couple of years. the libs just refuse to take that position so people are looking elsewhere. most people simply want the war to end.