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Americans putting life on hold amid economic anxiety under Trump, poll shows (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Harris poll for Guardian finds people reconsidering major life events such as having children or buying a home

Americans are reconsidering major life events including marriage, having children and buying a home amid economic anxiety in the opening months of the Trump presidency, according to an exclusive poll for the Guardian.

Six in 10 Americans said the economy has affected at least one of their major life goals, according to the Harris poll, citing either lack of affordability or anxiety around the current economy.

Though Donald Trump’s tariff policies have only been in place for a few weeks, and though he has temporarily walked back on some of his harshest policies, the findings are a sign that Trump’s economic agenda could have long-term effects.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Leave it up to dumbfuck conservatives to kill a recovering economy. An economy that was recovering from COVID better than most, if not all, other nation's economies.

Can we just let these braindead scumfucks run their own red states into the ground and cannibalize each other? I'm tired of supporting these fucking losers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Can you imagine how many babies they'd get if labor and delivery were free? How many parents would return to the work force if child care were free (or affordable)? It's cheaper for republicans to trap people in poverty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Republicans: We want Americans to have more babies!

The science on how to make more babies: Stop electing Republicans!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fuck our parents and grandparents. They should be lining up to throw themselves off a cliff for this rat turd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I've been doing this my whole life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My family desperately needs a bigger house or an addition but I have no idea if I will ever be able to afford another loan.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The entire country is suffering from narcissistic abuse Sure some are enabling it but we’re all suffering

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Indeed, all of our big ticket items are on hold.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s like a family death. You’re in trauma for a year and have to put off any major life decisions because of brain fog and anxiety.

Trump doesnt get what that impact does doesnt do anything for business and is unsustainable.

Then again he did bankrupt a bunch of casinos so it’s really on the public for voting him full well knowing he’s a convicted criminal and liar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if the economy recovers and we don't enter a "recession" none of the other Millennials I know are ever gonna be able to trust the federal government again. In my experience, as a demographic, we tended to lean LibLeft anyway, or at least those of us with IQs and test scores to stay out of remedial classes do. There are exceptions - we all know that guy, and it's always a guy. But still.

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Sorry I had more but I got distracted by the sounds of birds in my yard and, well 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You think millenials were betrayed…

Imagine being any generation in Ukraine right now. Or gaza. Or an immigrant of any color of skin but white in the US. Imagine being a child at an ICE detention center rn. Any child divided from their parent because of the continued ICE agent incompetence setting examples with children. Or the child with cancer that got yanked out of treatment to be deported.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I am reconsidering by thinking of moving out of the country lmao

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

My life has never been off of hold...

Would be nice if the job I trained the better part of a decade for paid more than living expenses.

Ever generation has less than 1/2 of the wealth as the previous, eventually we are just slaves

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah personally I just don't have any interest in living in a Nazi society, is that weird? My upbringing taught me that a Nazi society is antithetical to life and so far that has been 100% true, is that weird? Should anyone want to be a Nazi?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

As a boomer whose parents (both) were in world war 2, I listened to what the horrors that were perpetrated by the fascists and axis on the daily until I was a teen. I saw shows, testimonials and documentaries that all disappeared in the late 70’s and replaced with tamer stuff. I would rather die than live in a fascist regime.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Poor uneducated people are disenfranchised within our current form of government. Instead of fighting their oppressors, they surprisingly give up more of their power to those oppressors. They do this willingly and enthusiastically to join the in-group on the surface level while reaping none of the benefits. In fact it will cost much of Trump's base severely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At this point, with all the evidence pointing to our society being cataclysmically stupid, I'm assuming we're going to watch our nation decline for the rest of our lives. So I have to find joy in watching dipshit Trump supporters suffer harder than most. I have to grasp at the little tidbits of joy when I can.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you see it on the view of the Nazis they think they are the ones who have been persecuted for having to obstain from saying the ‘n’ word as so much worse a tragedy they've had to endure all these decades.

If you’re considered weird to that mentality; I’d take it as a compliment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's very much like that thing, "I've seen what makes you cheer, your boos mean nothing to me"

Now, what I do want to say is this: having spent my career surrounded by blue-collar men, there are about 1/3 of them that are the actual ringleaders for fascism. Whatever their camp is. Of the remaining 2/3, I would say half on a good day are still tolerable people. Misled, narrow-minded, problematic, check check check. But tolerable. And capable of being spoken to.

Union organizers know what I'm talking about. You've gotta divide the workers into camps you can get to, and camps you'll never get to. It's part of the process, I've read the books.

Now, those guys. They deserve to have the right people talking to them. It's not their fault the education system failed them. The media lies to them. That bullies seem to win everywhere they look.

But for me, rn at this point in my career, fuck em. I'm done. I've tried. Over and over again. Fights, had em. I work for myself now and the less I talk to other electricians IRL the better. They can all suck a big fat one.

:deep sigh:

Eventually, my position may change.

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