Summary
Faced with inflation, taxes and concerns over the size of Social Security benefits, most Americans are more afraid of going broke in retirement than they are of death.
In total, 64% of respondents across generations said they are more stressed about running out of funds in their golden years than the prospect of death.
Americans say they need $1.26 million to finance a comfortable retirement, yet the median amount saved is $87,000. “Certainly for boomers…inflation is a big deal.”
The wealthy controlled both parties until very recently.
Our choices were to vote R and things would get worse quickly, D so it got worse slower, or completely check out.
We finally got the “moderates” out of the DNC a few months ago, so there’s going to be an actual choice for “better”.
The problem was too many people kept voting “blue no matter who” so the people running the D party didn’t have any pressure because they still had a chance to win.
I think the tipping point for a lot of DNC voting members was when the last DNC stole New Hampshire’s delegates because they kept voting for a candidate Dem voters wanted and not who the DNC wanted.
That was/is a huge deal that if Republicans had done wed still be talking about. But loads of people already “forgot” that happened
I like the political optimism, but where was this huge shuffle of politicians you describe that ousted the moderates? Most of the people in office now are the same as before.
Go have a look at what the new DNC chair has been saying. He is, at least, making some of the right noises.