General Discussion

This is what I'm talking about.

I think one big reason we lost was because while we wanted to do SOME good things, there were LOTS of people hurting in the US, and there were so many people who looked at democratic policies and the things we tried to do never went far enough. They never covered enough people, they never applied to enough households.

Young people felt like they were getting left out in the cold. Can't afford a house. Drowning in debt. No jobs. Feel like no one is listening to the issues YOU care about.

There's the immigration issue. All the new migrants are coming in mass numbers during 3.5 years of Biden's presidency, and people are seeing on TV that they're getting help with housing, getting to stay in hotels, getting meals provided, and if you are a citizen who can't pay your heating bill, can't afford shoes for your kid to go to school... that has to be really galling, because you're thinking "what about me? You're doing all this to help that person. What about me?"

Same thing with universal healthcare and prescription drug prices. Biden lowered prices on 10 drugs. Did some to help prices on Medicare. It did NOTHING to help my prescription drug prices. Saying the proposal is to limit it to $2,000 out of pocket per year is a start... but that's still a lot of money. Is that per family? Or if there are 2 people in my family, is that $4,000 per year? That's a LOT of money. I think people want someone who will act and will do something to help their family. Why should we have to pay more for prescription drugs than Canada or Australia. We are funding the research and development of these drugs through our taxes, and the US has to pay insane prices compared to the rest of the world. It's insane. I think voters are sick and tired of democrats saying, oh, we can do just a little, and then barely being able to do even that. Why is that when republicans are in office, they can manage to get things done?