When people at the highest levels of the media and other elites in politics, for example, talk about the challenges of life in America in 2025, they often do so in a detached and observational tone.
Because they really don’t know what it’s like to open your electric bill and wonder how you’re going to pay for it this month, or they don’t understand what it feels like to have your regular prescriptions refilled and be told that your medication no longer exists thanks to “changes,” or that it is now expensive.
Even as Trump continues to fantasize about $2 a gallon gas, you may have shuddered as you filled up your tank to visit family and friends over the holidays.
The only reason the prices of some items are lower during the holidays is because supermarkets are making losses in a desperate attempt to get people into the stores to buy other, more expensive items. It is expected that retailers will increase their prices immediately after the start of the new year.
With all that needs to be done to stay afloat, it would be easy to forget all the things we should be grateful for.
Trump and many in the media are failing because they cannot relate to the struggles most people are experiencing right now. When Trump talks about food prices, he might as well be discussing flying in space, because he has equal personal experience with both.
My Thanksgiving wish for you is that you can ignore politics for just one day. If you have enough or more than enough to eat, enjoy every bite. When you are surrounded by people you love, enjoy them, laugh and smile, and understand that the moment you are in should be embraced and enjoyed. I would like everyone who reads this to feel warm, safe and loved, because that is what really matters.
These difficult times seem to be coming to an end. The current government and the current party are failing. They are rejected by the vast majority of Americans.
If you are one of our readers from around the world for whom today is just another Thursday and not a holiday, I wish the same for you.
Regular stories will resume on Friday.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
