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

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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] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a weird connection to make, but since this started happening, my wife and I have been unintentionally saving money.

I don’t think we’re doing it ‘on purpose’, but instead of the usual stream of random frivolity, we’re just sort of trimming back, and as a result, find ourselves with extra money to transfer to savings when we look at our accounts.
I think we’re both just trying to be ready, should we need extra resources for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Im Canadian and avoiding American products has saved me a lot of money, so much junk food we don’t need is American, and the off brand Canadian versions are even better and cheap. I never realized how much of my money went to American junk until this tariff thing, so I’ve stopped buying anything i don’t NEED

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Yeah same, we're saving because we dont know if shit could just hit the fan. I'm actually in the process of converting 50% of my savings into foreign currency. The US is finally on its way out

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a surefire way into a depression. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming any individual for behaving like that. It's the reasonable thing to do. But for an administration to fuck up that badly in such a short timeframe is just unbelievable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah i mean, we actually spent a little more last month to stock up on stuff. We haven't really felt the "tariffs" yet except for some temu orders I cancelled. But if it stays the current course we want to be safe.

Realistically trump has just been adding alot of uncertainty. Its annoying he doesn't have a real plan and just reacts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

having children

Not having children produces a long-term negative economic impact on the country, as the economic potential is tied to the size of the labor force.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Try telling that to the idiotic ruling class. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I'm an elder millennial. I feel like my life has spent more time on hold than otherwise. Economic crisis, plague, not-really-a-war-but-war, more economic crisis, watered down dictator. . .

Can I just die already?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No you can’t die! We need more hard workers in the workforce! How else will your boss and bosses boss afford that extra house, car, and vacation time?

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

"A crisis is coming!"

Well I've been in crisis since I got laid off at Christmas so everyone, welcome to the show.

Before that I've been trying to come out of my crises since Covid fucked my life up, still not fixed that.

And then going back, my life is still hugely derailed from the past 2.5 decades of crises, macro and micro.

So yeah it's just more of the same over here.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been trying to get back to the life I had before it blew up in 2008. My 26 year old son says that the Bush Economic Crash of 2008 looms large in the lives of his friends. Many in his generation had their entire lives thrown into chaos in the middle of their childhoods, giving them a wired in sense of foreboding toward their future. They know that no matter how good your life is, the government can destroy your life with mindless policies designed to benefit a tiny few elites, at the expense of everyone else.

No wonder that so many young people are thinking that Socialism/ Marxism/ Communism sounds like a reasonable alternative to whatever arbitrary system we have now.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Can I just die already?

I feel this. I also used to believe in and not mind the idea of reincarnation, but Jesus Christ would I hate to come back. I didn't procreate because I know there's nothing good on the horizon for future generations. It's become a nightmare to think I may ever have to come back again.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Gen X, here. Feel the same. Move forward two steps, stop. Back up one, stop. Take three forward, take 4 back. Move up one. Etc. X got lucky with cheaper college and sometimes you could find affordable homes, but damn. It feels like treading water and maybe occasionally swallowing some since forever.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a Harris poll so it's obviously financed by the woke globalist transdimensional space vampires. Wake up sheeple!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Space vampires ate muh eggz.

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

Where's the Trump poll? Conservative voices are being silenced!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These polls are misleading. 4 in 10 Americans have always supported Trump regardless of what he does. That hasn't changed.

Maybe it's significant that he's lost support from the other 2 in 10 who voted for him, but if they seriously thought that he was the best candidate during the 2024 election, then their opinions aren't based on critical thinking either.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

4 in 10 who actually vote. Trump only ever won ~30% of the popular vote when you count all of the people who couldn’t bother to get off the couch. If “Didn’t Vote” was a candidate, it would have won by a landslide.

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

You guys keep bringing this up as if the day when those non-voters start voting for Democrats is right around the corner. The percentage of people who don't vote hasn't changed much in 100 years. Quit wasting words on people who will never matter in this context.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Literally every single election the talking point is how many people didn't bother to vote. And it's always the same percentage. The only time it changed much at all was after Trump killed a few million Americans with his COVID policies. The only way to make any change more is to have a national voting holiday plus compulsory voting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd rather have universal vote by mail. We already have it in multiple states and it works fine. No need to mess with schedules if people can do it on their own time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It isn't mutually exclusive. Plus a holiday dedicated to voting means a day is open for researching a candidate, if needed. Also, psychologically, having the purpose of the holiday explicit means that some people will follow the rules of it. There are many prongs to getting people to vote.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn't vote means one of at least three things:

"I think the candidate i support will win anyways."
"I don't care who wins, i will be fine with any of the likely possible candidates."
"I don't feel represented by anyone but i feel powerless to get someone on the ballot who represents me."

Unless specifically polling non voters about the reason why they didn't vote we can't really tell.

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

There’s also the hidden fourth option: “I was disenfranchised by republicans, who made voting extremely difficult and/or prohibitively expensive.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

“While the law says that my employer must let me off to go vote, pointing out that fact does not protect me from getting fired in retaliation anyway in an at-will state.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Many skip voting because they perceive that their state will always vote for the opposite canidate.

It's a big flaw with the electoral college. It should just be a popular vote

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

You're missing one: "The Republicans successfully prevented me from being able to vote"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Also, of people who voted he only got 49.9%

Hardly "6/10"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not 4/10.

Most Americans simply did not bother to vote. Trumpers are a minority, it's just that their hatefulness is artificially amplified by Russian bots.

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

So we just gonna die now, I guess?

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