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0 pointsBraxton19801mo ago0 comments

>And then people will have much to criticize about what Trump is doing. But okay then, so do something better instead of all the doing nothing that was happening before.

I'm not in power and unlikely to ever be. I can criticize others actions even if I don't have a solution because doing nothing is better than making it worse.

The average person in the US has a living standard higher than the vast majority of the world.

There's no need to make radical changes without careful study as if it's an emergency.

The reason people feel the need to do this is manipulation by the Republican party and it's media supporters that makes people believe their lives are far worse than they actually are compared to other countries.

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AnthonyMouse1mo ago

> I can criticize others actions even if I don't have a solution because doing nothing is better than making it worse.

Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes messing up the status quo forces people to then go back and fix it properly and you ultimately get a better result than doing nothing.

> The average person in the US has a living standard higher than the vast majority of the world.

~20% of people in the US have a net worth of zero or negative. Housing costs are unsustainably increasing faster than wages:

https://www.statista.com/chart/34534/median-house-price-vers...

This prevents family formation because young people can't afford a home. A similar trend exists for healthcare costs.

The US is now spending about as much on debt service as on the military.

The social security "trust fund" is soon to run out and everybody is ignoring it because none of the solutions are fun.

These are actual problems. "It's worse in Afghanistan" is a nonsense reason for not fixing them.

Braxton1980OP1mo ago

>Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes messing up the status quo

What exactly does this mean?

Do you mean making things worse will cause other to make it better?

How do you know that will happen? Are you claiming that Trump making things worse without plan is beneficial as a catalyst for better?

>~20% of people in the US have a net worth of zero or negative. Housing costs are unsustainably increasing faster than wages:

What's this compared to other countries?

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