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No, I think most people only have the spoons to handle what is in front of them for the next 3-7 days. Its a systemic problem, that's been promoted by both parties: Keeping voters head's spinning, and the cloak of darkness providing cover for what our oligarchs want to actually do.
I've recently had to explain this to another person: The further down you are, in getting your needs met on the Maslow diagram, the shorter your planning becomes.
If all your needs are met, you can plan for this year, next year, and make decent plans for beyond. If your basic physical needs like food, shelter, water, and housing aren't being met, then your planning is reduced to 3-5 days, if that.
Its purposeful by design, for the working class to have their needs met partially only, at best, by the ruling class. So, we CAN'T plan further out.
Notice during the pandemic, when food, housing, water, etc were all being met better, due to a reduction in transportation costs, food distributions, moratoriums on eviction? We went from people re-learning to make bread, to "Fuck the system!" in a matter of a couple of months?
Most of the people I'm around are not rich by any means, but they are not living paycheck to paycheck. Rising cost of living is worrying, but manageable. They can afford to pay even the littlest bit of attention or concern, but they don't. Because then they would have to admit that things are collapsing around them week by week, and that's too frightening for them.
Frankly I'm tired of justifying the behavior of the average American with infantilizations like we are some lower form of life without sapience. At some point we have to own up to it, even if it's painful, even if all we have is ignorance, cowardice, and apathy.
Most Americans are a single paycheck away from being destitute... Like, the average savings for a person in this country is 2K. That's not even a single paycheck of mine, and hell, I even find it hard to make and plans past 8 or 9 months out.