I'm going to thunkpost for a second here, because something that's been bugging me finally kind of clicked.
There's been a steady drumbeat of people railing against Trump using the "price of eggs" topic, saying "haha magatards dont you feel stupid now that egg prices did NOT in fact go down?" That's largely died out for a few reasons, and now seems replaced by the "economy" topic, with people saying "haha magatards dont you regret voting for trump now that he tanked the S&P 500 and other common stock indices?"
It was 2022 I think, when the whole topic of inflation was very popular, you had people arguing over what the inflation rate actually was. Official sources said it topped out at like 7%, but common anecdotes would show that rent prices went up 10-20%, groceries were more like 25-50%, gas prices were close to 50% as well, tons of common things spiked easily in the double digits, and you would struggle to compose a monthly budget that got the number down to 7% for the average person.
Eggs, tariffs, all of these are proxies for the idea that finances for the average person are terrible, and frankly the average person would struggle to outline to you why exactly it's the case other than they don't make any money and everything is expensive as fuck. And yet you have countless credentialed lefties on social media smugly posting "uhhh, but the average egg index is actually UP by 2%?" not realizing that maybe the people they're trying to convince aren't looking for incremental improvements, they're fully bought-in to the idea of taking a mulligan on the system. Like, at some point if you're getting fucked, you throw your hands up and go "okay I would be willing to abandon all of this and just roll the dice on what we get to replace it", and to that person a sign of volatility is good. They WANT to see things change, just for the sake of change itself and maybe getting a better deal out of it. "But my retirement fund!", people scream, not realizing that they're trying to convince others who have never been able to afford to contribute to a retirement fund.
There's just something so profoundly perfect about the archetypal Twitter soyboy, who's all about facts and logic and heckin' emotional intelligence and empathy, smugly repeating a random statistic he never bothered to research himself and completely failing to get why it doesn't matter to an average American that the soyboy totally fails to understand the mindset of. He's all about facts and empathy, as long as you totally agree with him and feel exactly the same way that he does.
