Their wealth insulates them from the economic reality of trying to live day to day in an inflationary economy where the dollar you earn today will be worth quite a bit less when you cash your paycheck.
They are insulated from reality of normal people's lives by their social circle who all echo the Socialist Talking Points delivered by the New York Times editorial board.
Sorry. Normal people don’t matter any more. This is not the 1980s or 90s. The only thing that matters are ballots, which the polls cannot capture any more.
I Know an average old school Democrat about 80-ish. He’s not a dumb person IQ wise and is middle class successful in life.
He falls for anything that feeds a built-in mindset from his past.
He thought Trump could be kicked off the ballot in CO. or anywhere because he heard the 14th Amend. said certain things that surely must apply to an “insurrectionist” like D.T.
I predicted to him that - If I meaning me, know that has zero to do with Trump being liable to be kicked off Presidential Primary ballots, then I predict the Supreme Court will rule accordingly because surely THEY know. Then they ruled 9-0 exactly that way.
This outcome quieted him down somewhat afterwards, but at some point he voiced that surely Trump would be criminally convicted and end up in jail.
I didn’t debate his point with him. I just said, “You want to lay down a money bet on that?”. After what had happened with the Supreme Court the guy just got quiet at that point and hasn’t confronted me about Trump since then.
He still feels the same way about it all as before because that’s just the way he is.
“You can avoid reality. But you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand.................