Business Insider said there’s this undefinable economic malaise in the middle class, but it couldn’t quantify it. I can:
When you have lots of people paying off last decade’s dinners out and last season’s student loan debt, not much money is available to help today’s consumer economy.
Tack on jobs figures that are a lie, with a lot of younger people living with relatives because they can’t afford not to, the middle class parents in middle age or old age are supporting the younger generation - but the under-employed 25 year old doesn’t show up as unemployed, nor does the lay about with two masters’ degrees who never got a job.
No wonder I had seen in a number of live speech videos given by the Donald young people attending them. They are the reality of what the nation’s economy truly is.
The America Dream is dead. Killed by the Open Borders, NWO folks. All the stories people like to tell from 30 years ago no longer matter. I’ve been through all that too. The old stuff and old normal no longer apply. Might as well tell stories of the Roaring 20’s.
As one FReeper’s tagline said, most Americans don’t realize it yet. It’s called the “normalcy bias”. Oh, they have watched gas go up and down and food prices go up, but this ain’t 1985. Ask 94+ million Americans.