We lost (some of) the black men, the Hispanics, the youth and the first time voters.

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37. That is certainly true.

For instance, while I understand that prices are a concern and motivator to a lot of Americans, the MSM helps create the public's focus on that issues, while ignoring that gas prices are low, for instance.

Is it that food prices are "too high" (a highly subjective measure) or are wages too low? Looking at trends, the cost of a lot of things in the U.S. used to be much lower in relation to wages. Those products actually cost more, taking into account overall inflation. TVs now cost less than they did 20 years ago. Things like toasters and blenders used to be made in America and their prices plummeted when manufacturing moved overseas. Literal slaves, children working in sweatshops, people working for pennies a day - this led to Americans' insatiable appetite for more and more relatively cheap things.

When I was a child in the 1960s, blue collar workers could afford to raise a family on one income, owning a house and car. There were many fewer toys and gadgets, people had fewer clothes, and they cooked at home with a relatively short list of available ingredients.

I'm not saying it's bad to have a wide array of options at the grocery store, but it is bad that wages haven't kept up with costs, and instead, American consumers got used to having a lot of cheap junk to keep us distracted.

The Republicans created this imbalance, and Trump will greatly increase the divide between the very wealthy and most everybody else, who will continue to be squeezed and who will be told by the MSM and GOP that it's all the Democrats' fault.