Sorry to hear about your situation. I hope you’re able to find a good job soon.
I’m glad you haven’t decided to only blame Biden for your situation and are able to keep some perspective. Any normal working person thinking a 2nd Trump administration will improve their financial situation has been duped.
The current Republican Party offer no solutions. They are against everything and for nothing but power. They traffic in fear, uncertainty, and doubt to manipulate and scare people to do their bidding.
I could rant on this type of stuff for a while, but IMO we need another 4 years of a stable leader able to navigate the challenges at home and abroad. Biden is not the only Democratic leader that can do this, but I’m confident that person doesn’t exist on the Republican side.
I'm a former Democrat who left the party when Obama bailed out the banks and then the party decided to put their foot on the scale in the 2016 primary.
There is no denying that the economy was better under Trump-- but that was also a product of levers he was pulling (keeping interest rates low for example) that directly led to this situation AND was carried on the back of the economy Obama left him. And because he got booted before the economic ripple of the pandemic were truly felt. Also, his handling of Ukraine led to the Russian invasion.
Biden has done some very good things that don't get credit because the media doesn't cover them and because there is a slow path to be forged even after legislation has been passed. And he actually believes in Democracy AND has created a big tent that includes progressives.
That said, both in his handling of inflation and Isreal, his apporach has been antiquitied at best and devastatingly stupid at worst.
We lived in a global economy and in a country wrecked by debt, economic inequality and monopolization. Taking a 1970's approach to fixing inflation has amplified many of those things. And while it has successfully tamed some of inflation, there has been 0 effort to tackle the corporate greed side now that supply chains and the such have normalized. And if he fails at towing the line and causes a full fledged recession it is going to be way, way worse than in 08/09 (which was right as I was graduating college) because the cost of housing and food has more than doubled since then.
And in regards to Isreal, its government is not the sane, rational one of the 1990s. Bibi is an extremist. And on top of that, most people under 45 already viewed Palistine as persecuted against. So by handing blank checks to Isreal so that they can commit genocide, Biden has managed to alienate the base that got him elected.
Bonus points for not reversing the sanctions on Venezuela that Trump put in place-- which is the main reason we have a migrant crises that Boomers are so upset over.
