Well apparently they DID want to have to learn about budgeting and rationing, and a whole lot more than eggs, because they voted for Trump's tariff plan, which means they voted for recession, a shifty job market, and a whole lot of belt tightening.

Like it or not, you either vote for something or against it. "Not Trump" isn't just about the man himself and his utter lack of character, it's about his policy ideas, his overall administration, and how those ideas are going to impact you and the general landscape.

First off, I reject the notion that Harris doesn't have any ideas. She does. They didn't get promoted on media. Secondly, by all the metrics, the economy IS doing well. The turn around after Covid has been phenomenal. Thirdly, it's clear that the 'price of eggs' being out of reach is due more to corporate looting of the middle class in various ways.

For example, where I live rents have gone up 70% over the last 10 years due mostly to private equity firms artificially driving up rents. I saw something posted by a young man recently talking about how he got declined for an apartment because of his income/rent ratio being too low, even though he makes within the average of where he lives and the apartment in question is also within average of where he lives, but on the lower range of average. He's preparing to live out of his car.

Most homeless are working homeless.

Grocery prices are out of hand due to price gouging.

Now. Whether people want to be told to deal with the issue or not because they're "First world" or whatever other "I'm too lazy to manage my life" reason they want to cling to (and let's be real here, no matter how anyone tries to slice it or frame it, that IS what it boils down to) problems don't go away by sticking your head in the sand, mismanaging them, or hoping and dreaming a "strong man" persona will take care of you.

You have to work at them. And that starts with caring about them enough to do so. People's actions tend to follow what they truly care about. There is nothing new under the sun here.

In that same vein, grocery cart issues have three solutions. If you're not making enough money to live decently, then you either have to make more money, reduce your standard of living, or control prices. That can happen on an individual level, a local level, a state level, or a federal level. Or a combination. Nothing new under the sun here.

And you can't tell me people don't want to be told to ration their eggs. The tuna industry was brought to heel to save dolphins by rationing and boycotting. It wasn't hard to do. It started with caring about the lives of dolphins and then acting like we did.

So we can save dolphins but we won't save ourselves. Because the same tactics WILL work. Especially of we vote in people willing to bring these corporations to heel. Like Katie Porter, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala Harris.

But not Trump. He'll give them further access to our purses hoping to get a kick back. He's for himself. What more evidence does anyone need than his first administration? The bullshit lies every time he opens his mouth? The convictions? The failed businesses? Project 2025?

So yes. It is acceptable and logical to vite for Harris for not being Trump, even if youbdont agree with all her ideas (which, I didn't), even if you don't have a firm understanding what the nuts and bolts of her plans are (I seem to have known more than most, but I too wish there had been more anf more easily available) bbecause you DO know what his are. And if you didn't know about Project 2025 because he lied about it being his plan, claimed he had nothing to do with it, you're left with "thoughts of ideas of plans" if you took him at his word about Project 2025.

So how is it her campaign was flawed for actually proposing policy and saying she will back policy but the public is on this tear about "she had no policy" but his is not, and clearly the winning strategy when he ALSO had no policy plans, other than the idiotic one he distanced himself from and claimed he didn't know anything about but now all the Republicans are saying, "yep, that's the plan"?

What's different here? What is it? What could it be? What.....? Hmm, whatever could it be?

Harris ran a near flawless ccampaign and she did it in 100 days. The truth is, it was never going to be enough. And we know why.

It's NOT the economy.

Let's be super clear because there tends to be some willfully misinterpretation going on. I'm not ignoring economic woes of people by pointing that out, and I'm not seeing anyone else do so either, save the millionaire and billionaire class. I'll remind you that they tend to vote Republican, for a reason. Frankly, my family is hurting too, we're in the same situation as middle America. We live in the city now, but we're from rural America. So don't preach at me that their pain is being ignored. That's bullshit.

I take that back. It's not bullshit. Their pain is being ignored. But it's being ignored by Trump voters, not Harris voters, because Harris voters voted for the alleviation of their pain, alongside other issues. Trump voters voted to hurt someone else over helping themselves. That's what it comes down too.

And all this dancing around trying to explain and rationalize that vote as something other than what it was to make ourselves feel better avout having to like alongside the sort of people who would do such a thing is just acting like a battered spouse, too beat down and befuddled to think straight. So you choose more abuse and hope it'll be different.

It won't be. It never will be.

Action follows passion. There's nothing new under the sun here.