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America Is Freaking Out Over a $25,000 Bare-Bones Truck—Meanwhile, Toyota Sells the Same Thing for $13,000 Everywhere but Here
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Our car market is an absolute dumpster fire. That's what happens when you don't have a functional government.
It's extremely functional for billionaire+ rulers that govern government to their benefit.
For the past two or three decades congress has been able to do quite little outside of the massive omnibus budgets, since the budget is the ONE bill they are required by law to produce yearly. Obviously present conditions have worsened this divide but its been years since the govenrment has had any capacity to work together to produce anything in a substantial timeframe. This isnt even taking into account lobbyists and foreign agents from countries that aren't real that direct what small capacity politicians do have for each other to make more wars we don't call wars. The system is broken on multiple fundamental levels, replacing every single candidate and aide wouldn't even be a start.
US voters are left in a modern society that give us less free time than we had even 30 years ago and also pays us less taking into account inflation all with a political system that only works against them.
The U.S. government passes hundreds of bills per year. They do quite a lot for corporations and the wealthy. The corporate owned media just doesn’t report on the fact the government is functioning for who it serves.
To add to this: The government doesn't have any capacity to work together to produce anything in a substantial timeframe because in liberal democracy both the ruling class and the public get a (sometimes spotty) veto on the government can do, and in 21st century America those two groups agree on little to nothing.