I participated in a nationwide demonstration that included 5.2M people, by the most optimistic count I've heard.\u00a0 There's a few photos in the media here and there, but nothing that matches the scale of the protest.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n
OTOH, the media are carrying on every hour on every channel about the stock market.\u00a0 I get it, I have a 401(K) that I'm going to need to draw on in the next year or so, so I care about the market.\u00a0 But I'm in the minority.\u00a0 Most Americans don't have stocks and bonds, so it the market is going south, so what?\u00a0 Most Americans don't care that unemployment rates are low or inflation rates are matched by income increases; that's just a bunch of numbers, they don't tell me anything about me.\u00a0 Most Americans don't care about overseas aid, they think we spend too much on that anyway.\u00a0 Most Americans wish there weren't wars going on overseas, but there are always wars going on overseas and so long as we're not the ones fighting that's fine.<\/p>\n
What do I think people care about?\u00a0 The price of groceries.\u00a0 The price and availability of healthcare, which might mean I don't get to go to a doctor or a dentist and hope I don't get hit by a car.\u00a0 The price of childcare.\u00a0 The lack of a house I can afford, and the increases in the rent.\u00a0 The increase in homelessness that I can see on the streets of the place I live.\u00a0 The insecurity of my job.<\/p>\n
I've seen studies that say things change when 3.5% of the population gets out on the streets. We're halfway there, it'll probably take more in an authoritarian state, we'll keep going and getting bigger.\u00a0 Trump'll keep being incompetent as catastrophe after catastrophe happens, just as catastrophes do with any administration.\u00a0 And at some point the media will focus on what people actually care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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