Affordability

The latest buzzword for the upcoming election is affordability. This is code for bringing prices down but this won’t happen using the democratic strategy. Their plan, as always, is to use tax money to provide benefits and this leads to inflation which causes prices to rise. Recall that Biden sent two trillion in checks to the American people and inflation went from under two percent to over nine percent. Many people will vote for this not because they see it a solution but because they will be voting against Trump. When you are for something, you disagree with, it becomes a classic case of cognitive dissidence. This happens when emotions overtake objectivity. People like bringing manufacturing jobs back home. They like fair trade which helps the US lower the trade deficit. They like selling military supplies to the EU instead of giving stuff to Ukraine. They like making the EU and Canada increase their defense spending from under two percent to five percent. This relieves US from the responsibility of their defense. They like getting Saudi Arabia to join forces with Israel to bring peace to Palestine. They like Trump working on peace in Ukraine. They like secure borders. They like trillions of investments coming in from foreign countries. What they don’t like is Trump.