Lol, yeah, case in point. Fixed.

low-information voters

My candidate gave two multi-hour unscripted interviews. Did yours do that?

I mean, they’ve won basically unfettered power, so yeah.

Honestly one of the better photos to come out of that comet pass

oh, we're not at the lowest yet unfortunately.

Wait until trump's admin actually starts up and all those people start supporting concentration camps for the migrants, LGBTQ+ members, and "political dissidents". Wait until a democratic/progressive congressperson gets assassinated and watch how they will give zero fucks about it and support doing more of that. Wait until they start actually getting hyper-violent in the streets, shooting people they think are the "enemy", and getting away with it scott free.

We have so much further to fall over the next 4 years. And all those people you distrust now, will be on the frontlines defending every one of those actions.

I have no doubt Trump made every effort to cheat. There were attempts to keep people from voting, bomb threats, purging of voter rolls, and questionable access to voting machines.

Let's not forget Elon collecting signatures from demographics least likely to vote, or starlink being used in many districts as the network uplink for insecure machines, or the switch to computerized poll register systems using digital signature on a tablet (rather than a paper poll register) at many of these same polling places.

If you really wanted to juice your guy's vote numbers it wouldn't be all that hard to take the signatures you paid for and link them to people unlikely to vote, then get into vulnerable polling place systems and add bullet ballots for your guy ostensibly cast by people who are unlikely to actually show up.

Yea, even if they did cheat, I don't really care. Because it shouldn't have been close enough for that stuff to even matter. People keep calling him charismatic and all I can think is "have you actually heard the guy talk? He couldn't talk his way out of a paper bag." Seriously, if a guy on the street corner said the same things he's said you'd think he was an idiot, and you'd be right.

It goes on burgers

they perceive things as better because right wing propaganda pumps people full of negative emotions so they'll vote right, and now that the election is over, they don't need to be made to feel scared all the time

The article doesn’t say people think the economy is better now. It just says they “feel better about” the economy.

Noting should ever be completely unregulated. Humans are the worst.

Nuance is important, but it's also difficult for laypeople. Not because they're unintelligent, necessarily, but because they haven't studied and trained like experts have. That's why we have to be able to rely on experts. But, deferring to the authority of experts means giving up at least some power. I think that can work when there's trust between the experts and the laypeople, but when trust is lost, laypeople will no longer respect the authority of experts. That's what the experts, the "elites" have to understand: their expertise gives them authority, and with authority comes power, and, well, as uncle Ben would say, with power comes responsibility, and accountability. I don't think the experts of today take their responsibility seriously enough, nor do I think they take proper accountability.

I say it’s the opposite. Given that markets distribute more reliably and equitably than any other system including direct redistribution of goods and services, it should be considered more heinous to distort markets around things we need.

Healthcare and education are two markets that have been royally fucked (in terms of access to affordable options for poor people) by government attempts to do the opposite. We decide something’s too important to leave open, so we start dumping money into aid programs, and prices absolutely skyrocket.

Oh and housing too. Dems were talking about offering up to $X of down payment assistance on houses. Provide buyers with government money to help them buy this thing we’ve decided people cannot be without. Same thing we’ve been doing for decades in education and healthcare. Same thing that has driven both those markets into ridiculously high prices, and created massive ranks for debtors from the lower class in both of those.

Subsidized demand drives prices up. It closes the door to market access for lower income individuals and forces them to use the government assistance to get access.