The only thing missing is the acknowledgement a majority of those most suffering voted for this. Home owners as well as those in households making over $200K/ year voted for Trump by a decent margin. Those renting as well as those making less than $100K/ year voted for Biden by a decent margin.

When I still had Facebook shortly before the 2020 election some high school friends/ classmates were discussing the election. We are ages 38-40 now. Both the person who started the thread and I are “1%’s” trying to get people to look past the media narrative (not very successfully). We are not rich or ultra rich, but we have income and assets that scoot both our households into the bottom of the 1% (and we both did it on our own, not inherited). Anyway, it was us against 20+ people. All our classmates cared about was punishing us. Claiming we didn’t “pay” our fair share. Orange man bad. The whole deal. I remember writing:

“How is us paying more in taxes going to help you all or anyone else? How is a 2% increase on a small portion of our income, combined with an over 5% SALT deduction on almost all of our income, going to do anything except disguise a tax break for us by having less income taxed at a tiny fraction of a higher rate? You have no idea you are really pushing a tax break for us.

Beyond that we are going to have inflation either way with all the free Covid money, but it’s going to be much much much worse if Biden is elected. He will promote more wasteful spending, regulations to crush certain sectors of the economy like energy, and there is going to be a lot more than 100 more days of Covid nonsense crushing the economy under Biden. Inflation is the most regressive tax that can be imposed on a population, and it’s going to be huge if Democrats control national policy or the executive branch.

Even if our liquid investments drop a bit for while, they will still produce income. Moreover, we own 2 homes which are assured to skyrocket beyond the price hikes we’ve already seen. Our interest rates are 2.5% and 2.75%. We have a far greater percentage of disposable income. I can assure you the inflation tax will harm many of you more than a 2% increase on a bit of our income even without a SALT deduction and inflation will impact us.

Add to the economy rising crime and wide open borders suppressing wages. We are all in for a rocky road with negative impacts on quality of life. My kids have been back in school full time since mid August. If Cooper or Biden win, yours won’t see a classroom for months, and when they do, they’ll still be masked like Taliban women. Girls sports and private spaces will be under full blown attack by delusional gender ideologies (just look at Biden’s website). Don’t try to claim you weren’t warned. This is fundamental and incredibly predictable.

And that’s just domestic policy. Weak US leadership creates geopolitical instability. Putin was kept at bay through engagement by Trump. But he’s aging and might be eyeing another land grab - I have no idea if it’ll be eastern Ukraine, some K country, or part of Finland’s tundra. Hopefully not a thriving young democracy that is a former Soviet state. Heaven forbid China makes moves on Taiwan to assure WW III. However unlikely, this crap is more likely to happen under weak U.S. leadership. Biden is weak.

I hope I’m wrong, but if Biden wins and this stuff starts happening, there will be no orange man to blame. When you all go hunting for people to blame, start by looking in the mirror.”

The guy who started the post agreed while everyone else called us crazy conspiracy theorists and I’m pretty sure there were several accusations of being racists. 😂

I deleted Facebook because it’s toxic, but some days I wish I hadn’t just to tag this conversation and say “don’t blame me, I voted for Trump.” 🤷‍♀️