Expiring Covid benefits and new limits on safety net programs threaten to hit Americans' pocketbooks — especially among core parts of the Democratic electorate.
I think voters are smart and can tell the difference between the party that would extend benefits if they could and the party that would have ended benefits way sooner if they could have.
Why would you think that? Large swathes of the country routinely vote against their own interests while blaming their problems on the party that would actually help them. And then they don’t choose to access realistic information that would help them make better decisions.
Your optimism is inspiring, but IMO misplaced 🙁 Here in Canada conservatives like to use the same trick election after election: they strip “safety net” bare all until ~6mo before election. Then they throw a few one-time cheques before election and… voila: all is forgotten and forgiven. Same here in reverse: any downfalls just before election would define voter behaviour, not the systemic view at ability to govern.
I think voters are smart and can tell the difference between the party that would extend benefits if they could and the party that would have ended benefits way sooner if they could have.
You have more faith in the average American than any of us
Why would you think that? Large swathes of the country routinely vote against their own interests while blaming their problems on the party that would actually help them. And then they don’t choose to access realistic information that would help them make better decisions.
Your optimism is inspiring, but IMO misplaced 🙁 Here in Canada conservatives like to use the same trick election after election: they strip “safety net” bare all until ~6mo before election. Then they throw a few one-time cheques before election and… voila: all is forgotten and forgiven. Same here in reverse: any downfalls just before election would define voter behaviour, not the systemic view at ability to govern.
Would they? They had a majority everywhere and didn’t.
They didn’t? I mean, I guess not if you only watch Fox News.
Ah, the standard “everyone to my left is all the way to my right” argument.