Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Mandami is interesting, an immigrant who wants to tear up our societal structures and traditions. But I doubt he can actually do much, since the state and national laws and constitutions don't allow him to start seizing property and nationalizing the means of production.
His largest impact will likely be generating campaign ads for the opposition's future national campaigns
The Party knows all this, which is why they've been having an allergic reaction to the guy.
It’s all very interesting.
I think us 5-2% in one earners kind of live in a bubble. Good jobs, good lives, own a house etc. we have an extremely niche job. This type of lifestyle (I sit SC by the pool on captain pay and haven’t left my house for 3 weeks while making what a doctor makes) just doesn’t exist for 99% of people.
Those people work extremely hard to get the kind of life their parents and grandparents had. Instead they just get squeezed. Squeezed out of groceries, squeezed out of owning a house, squeezed out of taking their kids to Disneyland.
America doesn’t really work for them. It works for Jeff Bezos. Spending 100x their life’s income on an obnoxious Venice wedding. This is the stuff they see on TV while wondering if they’re going to be able to buy a starter house or if they can afford their rising healthcare premiums.
Mamdani and Trump are the two lifelines being thrown to them on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Can you really blame them for wanting a radically different type of society?
Again, America as WE enjoy it has not been working for an ever increasing percentage of Americans. It’s just not sustainable.