Ryan Steinberg

Honestly don’t know what’s going on. You have well known liberal pundits finally arguing for growing the pie instead of trying to redistribute it and that the bureaucracy is failing people while prominent people on the right are adopting Marxist talking points about the need to accept sacrifice for the common good. A lot of people insisting that the same free market system that dragged millions out of poverty and made America the richest country in the world is the real problem. A system where even our poor have a higher standard of living than the middle class in almost every other country on earth. But it apparently isn’t working because goods are too cheap and people, when given the choice, prefer white collar jobs to working in factories nowadays. And of course none of the people saying all this are the ones who actually work in those factories. They just assume someone else wants to. Did you actually ask the people who are employed in service jobs while we have 4% unemployment if they prefer to work in plants? Of course not. Instead you’re clapping like seals as the captain drives the ship towards the iceberg. And then getting mad at some of us for screaming there’s an iceberg ahead and you can’t just spin your way out of the damage to the ship after you hit it. Trump thinks he’s going to be FDR but instead he’s headed into Herbert Hoover territory. While the WH and social media is full of yes men telling him it’s brilliant and that the ship will magically bypass the iceberg. He has the chance to be a very successful President. Americans support policies to secure the border. They support deportations of people who shouldn’t be here. They want a strong FP that uses American strength to punish enemies and secure American interests. They are even understanding of some pain to cut government waste and fraud. But most of all they care about their pocketbooks. They voted for the booming pre-COVID economy of Trump’s first term. They voted for growth, lower pricing, and low unemployment. They might even tolerate some questionable threats to achieve cooperation on key issues. But they didn’t vote for central planning of our economy. They didn’t vote for trade wars. They didn’t vote for crashing our economy based on a wacky theory on how to refinance our debt. They didn’t vote for higher prices or job cuts. And no amount of spin will deflect the blame for those things. You can pretend we don’t know what happens when you hit an iceberg, but we do. And the predictable next step is the same people downplaying the harm will be calling for price controls and blaming the consequences on everyone else (can’t wait for the “greedy corporations” lines). You can do what you want but don’t say we didn’t warn you. And please stop pissing on our feet and telling us it’s raining.