- Housing
- Student Loans
- Medical Care
- Child care/The cost of children (assuming that’s something you want to do not making a value judgement)
- Education
- Wages/“JOBS™©®”/“THE ECONOMY™©®”
- Inflation/Cost of Living/Value of currency
- Just the political issues we all face but are the best “hot button” issues
All that sort of stuff. I’m not minimizing stuff like Palestine of course, but I don’t recall in the seemingly endless 2020-2024 election campaign. I don’t really think I heard any sort of real “kitchen table issues”. I feel like even the most basic political issues have been obfuscated or ignored. It feels like these very political issues have been removed from the sphere of political discourse.
I don’t know what my larger point is, but it feels strange to think that for example I haven’t heard a single mention of something like higher education costs for example. This isn’t just a dunk on Democrats either, though it is worth saying “get fucked losers”, but I think since about 2020 I haven’t heard a damn thing about healthcare or housing in a real political way from the big two or the media in general.
Again this isn’t to meant to minimize any other real problems either, not trying to “this is more important than that”, just saying I haven’t political people talk about politics all the while not being able to escape the political dimension
Besides the obvious capitalist logic behind it, this complete lack of issues in any sort of discourse - be it media or general day-to-day discourse - seems to me to be the result of capitalisms complete failure to in any way serious way address climate change. If you won’t address the elephant in the room, you also won’t address all the fine china it is pushing over (kinda got mixed up in my metaphors here). And climate change in that sense is of course not just literal changes in climate due to our excessive output of CO2 but our increasing awareness that the capitalist mode of production of endless profit growth is not compatible with our life on this planet in basically every conceivable way. They should maybe make up some word for that. 🤔
I totally agree. It’s like they don’t want to recognize the political issues because they understand their politics have utterly failed them and/or are totally unequipped to handle these very real political issues. It’s like a resignation I haven’t really considered until you said it this way. Well said friend.