Just stop buying Goyslop or groceries or pretty much anything and you wont notice the price increases. Besides plenty of migrants are getting by just fine on rice and beans

Now they say inflation happened but they fixed it.

When it was happening, it wasn't happening or it was stagflation or something.

Maybe it's because I live in socal but I can see with my own eyes that the police are not enforcing laws they used to. It's not like catalytic converts got super valuable over night. lol

The defund the police movement had an effect Acting like it didn't, is insulting.

You have a lot of previously impartial institutions or experts that are carrying a bit too much water for the democratic narrative even when the facts don't line up.

I remember reading Krugman's article in the past year about how inflation is overblown, and his argument was that inflation was still higher than expected, but the rate at which it was higher than expected the past few quarters signaled that things were trending downward, heavily caveated by his metric excluding housing, transportation and energy of course.

Inflation is high because the world shut down for 18 months and increased the supply of cash to prevent a greater economic collapse. That excess money is now finding itself trapped in non-discretionary goods (like housing and gas) while the economy corrects. It's not Trump or Biden's fault, but ignoring how painful the recovery has been for the middle-class specifically is what every mainstream political economist has done.

And it's like… how fricking tone-deaf is that to layman complaints? I'm an economist. I'm not royalty in the field or anything, but I an obligated to find the actual complaint being made in the misinterpretation of data when I speak to a topic.

It feels like a lot of the experts in the dem camp have taken to treating people like idiots if they can't phrase the problems they're experiencing in sterile academic language, and using that as an excuse to push reductive narratives around crime, economics and immigration.

Culture shifted incredibly quickly on that though, as opposed to creating a massive culture of war issue.

Furthermore gay marriage is fundamentally a much less inflammatory issue than abortion, for obvious reasons.

The Court didn't even consider reversing Bowers until years later, and deliberately waited for Lawrence to come around 20 years later. Even then, the Court didn't even consider DOMA or gay marriage in general until another decade. You know what happened in between? Broad societal acceptance of gays and lesbians, and several states moving to pass their own laws on the subject or for their state supreme courts to do similarly. It was the exact opposite of what happened with Roe, and for that reason many Republicans have moved on from it. That was all on Justice Kennedy, by the way.

(Except me, because I never thought - and still don't - think that marriage is a federal issue, but whatever.)

Or more likely, if some lolcow uses Obergefell to push for legalizing incest and/or polyamory (LOVE IS LOVE, BIGGIT!).

That's a fair point. I had forgotten the slippery slope boomerang effect there.