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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: weatherman   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A reminder from 2020
Date: 11/05/24 3:16 PM
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"...unsatisfied with the direction of the economy, driven largely by a rapid post-Covid increase in goods prices (especially necessary goods) and home prices, exacerbated by high interest rates. That, coupled with dissatisfaction over border and immigration policy and a gradual shift of non-college educated working class voters towards voting affinity based on educational attainment (and increasingly gender) rather than race..."

no, these are largely gop talking points that poll as popular grievances and are useful for the appearance of MAGA politics as normative.
the giveaway is the sheer lack of a logical chain of actions which leads to possible solution by any objective measure.
most exasperating is the idea that a defective authoritarian failed businessman, and his wealthy cronies like musk, will make life better for the lesser educated working class (i guess because his track record shows that is what he really lives for ?!?)

if there is any explanation, then it does lie partly in stupidity, as have many such occurrences throughout history described by noted surgeon\financist\historian bill bernstein :
bookshop.org - The delusions of crowds why people go mad in groups william j bernstein
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