Postmaster General covers his ears from House Republican questioning during Oversight hearing

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60. We have been criminally tone deaf at the highest levels

On our watch rents and home costs have continued to soar, as has the cost of health care and the misdeeds of private insurers. College tuitions have gone through the roof and into the stratosphere. And of course wealth inequality has gotten even more pronounced.

We had no real bully in the pulpit on any of those issues.

Tuition debt relief is the one thing you can point to but that probably cost us more votes than it earned us because we didn’t get our hands dirty first by dragging university presidents into the court of public opinion and ask them to justify their prices.

Is the monetizing of the basics in late-stage capitalism Obama’s or Biden’s fault directly? No. Did they ever give the impression that doing something about these issues was their top priority? No. Did they ever jawbone private equity, insurance companies, university heads and/or any other bad actors? Not that I recall. Maybe check our approach to campaign financing for clues.

We spent more time promoting top line economic numbers than digging into the nitty gritty of household budgets and we’ve been rewarded with Trump, the sequel. In the real world that kind of result means heads roll. Not in Democrat World. I am not going to blame our leaders; they take their cues from us. We keep our heads down and we keep voting for them.

Say what you will about the Republicans, but after they got their clocks cleaned twice by Obama they wanted change. They not only got it, they’ve returned the favor to us now twice (don’t kid yourselves, there never would have been a President Biden without Trump botching COVID). So now it’s up to us to demand better candidates and a more assertive party. Since we have people with higher standards, ie the average Democrat, we can actually do this right and maybe save the country. But not without a fight.