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Isabelle Williams's avatar

I remain disappointed that none of the writers for this substack will touch the big C word.

Covid. You can't understand what happened in terms of the loss of trust for institutions and the big media without looking at the pandemic narrative. Remember when the lab leak was a racist conspiracy theory? I do. What about the wonderful warp speed vaccine that turned out not to work - but is still being forced on people.

Covid was not the only thing that undermined trust. The HunterBiden laptop, the Russian interference story, these also were dramas which made many Americans, like me, stop trusting the big media outlets. You need to talk about this. Propaganda. Censorship.

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Richard's avatar

The economy, at the turn of the year, is in good shape only in media narrative and flawed government statistics. Here on the ground, it is in bad shape. People will vote their own lived experience not media narrative. We are all about 20% underwater on inflation even by understated government numbers. Those numbers will probably never go down again but stopping the War on Energy will also help to stop the bleeding. New jobs are either in government or government adjacent industries or low paid service jobs. Neither are especially useful to the working class. And lockdown induced shortages have never really gone away, at least where I live. They just skip randomly from product to product. And there are new ones like the bird flu induced egg problem. The supermarket has stopped posting prices. If you have to ask, it's too much.

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