They need results. They need a path to the middle class. They need to be able to buy a home, buy a car, see a doctor, earn a pension.
Too many young people feel that they will never be able to afford the lifestyle their parents had and yet they look around and every brown person, every illegal immigrant, is already enjoying the fruits of socialism with their free homes (Section 8), free health care (Medicaid), free food, (SNAP, WIC), free walking around money (EBT, TANF) and countless other government gibs we hardly even know about.
They're starting to say, "Well, If I'll never be able to afford a home, why don't you just give me one like you gave Faisal and Shaniqua."
"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
-- Karl Marx, 1848 speech on trade.
“They need to be able to buy a home”
To buy a house now selling at $440,000 at $350,000 and then see the market value dropping by $20,000 a year to $330,000, $310,000, $290,000, $270,000, etc. is simply buying trouble and misery.
I’m old. Pushing 60. I can’t afford what my parents had and I’m making what many would call good money. In fact, a couple months ago I sold my machining and fabrication business because it was too expensive to run. Taxes, insurance, regulations, and new property managers that tripled the rent and wanted 5 year contracts killed it. Houses and commercial building are bought in hours by massive institutions and turned in to rentals. The subscription based software models raised operating costs just for my software in to the $20k per year range. If I stayed in business rent, insurance, and software was going to cost nearly $70k per year before I broke even. I am not going to work 500 hours a year as a slave. And this was a recent increase once kung flu lockdowns ended. My customers can’t afford what I would need to charge and they get what I produced from China for 10% what I need to charge just to break even. We are not a capitalist nation anymore. I don’t know what to call it now. There is something seriously wrong and we can thank government. When I went to college late 80s early 90s I made $25 an hour as a certified structural steel welder in Fresno and that covered all my expenses, tuition, housing, and plenty left over. Today, nearly forty years later, a welder makes $25 an hour. Even the trades are a crap deal. Those are the results the yutes see today.
This. When people of all ages are financially desperate they’ll vote for whoever seems most likely to shake up the system because what have they got to lose?