New York Times

This is how they designed the system to work now. Instead of making changes that will help the most number of people permanently, they throw fancy bullshit around "oh he's a felon now!", " oh social programs need to be cut!" Instead of improving the social security program they reduced it's insolvency date. The Democrats and Republican leadership have a timer on their cells phones for when society is supposed to collapse on yours and my head. Leaving them as supreme rulers after the collapse. Make the other guy look as bad as possible, ignoring the people whom's lives were ruined by your action, or inaction. Keep your base happy and throw in enough bullshit to bring in moderates - benefit increases - tax cuts for wealthy - both short term solutions that have proven to deliver more cash flow, the issue is, the cash flow ALWAYS finds it's way into the pockets of the rich. Increased rent, increased cost of living that is waaaay beyond any known or unknown inflation and tax increases, increased costs of services, and if somehow they can't get you with those, insane inflation to catch all the non essentials limiting how much you can do with your free cash, dwindling it not because there is less stuff to go around, but because some dragon decided their pile should be as big as the other guys, which made the other guy angry because they want the biggest pile... And somehow, us, the avg jackass an jillaninnies, are only legally allowed to do nothing when we hear "IT COMES IN PINTS?!?" When the corporate rental property you rent from is referring to the size of your rent payments. That is until you are working a full time job, with no debt, and can't afford your own apartment 2hrs from work because you don't make 6figures a year. So you're couch surfing, And still barely making it because eating out which is all you can do when sleeping on a couch, is taking up all of your free cash. Can't save, can't afford monthly rent if you could save, can barely afford to just buy a brand new car, insurance, and gas, then that starts breaking down to the point it's obvious you are going to be paying thousands a year in repairs, even tho it is typically only 1 shop visit a year. So when we are all crammed 2 family units per 2 bedroom apartment with massive amounts of empty units sitting around, and social security is insolvent so our elders are living with us, the wealthy continued to replace good paying american jobs with low paying h1-b visa indentured slaves and no one can afford to retire with the cost of living, and the cost of living continued to soar until a 2bedrom apartment is 1 full months pay for what is considered then a well paid engineer job and the people stealing from us with highway robbery on prices, and out right exploitation of quality US employees that are afraid of being replaced by foreign trump approved h1-b slaves.... Then when no one can afford to go to the movies, eat out, or go to a concert, when the economy collapses and both parties move to remove hyuuuuge swaths of OUR legal protections that were the only remaining stumbling blocks to them just turning the hoses, dogs, and bootlickers, loose on us because "don't blame us you can't pull yourself up by your own sneakers!" Like it actually means something and isn't how in real life you would in fact fall flat on your face, by literally grabbing your own foot and jerking on it while standing up. You could use your feet as a brace, but you're grabbing a hold of something other than you foot to stand up. So while they are jeering at us through the fence, our rights eroded, living functionally homeless, every last bit of the only thing we have of value to them exploited thru cheap labor, then I bet you people are still going to be saying "democrats and republicans are totally different entities not two sides of the same coin". Their leaderships actions differ, but their end goal appears to be the same. You and I, as indentured slaves, working in warehouses that are locked closed during 16hr work days until a shift change occurs and they just execute, jail, or kick out of society anyone that says more than "thank you may I have another". Just because some members of the parties don't agree with this philosophy, their leadership continually supports and vocalizes through their parties propaganda machines to support policies that are short term Band-Aids but long term disasters.