It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps. There, the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy.

He had voted for President Donald Trump in the last election. He believed Trump had strengthened the economy in his first term, and he wanted more of that.

“I thought that he was going to bring some of those things back,” said Castillo, a 43-year-old factory worker. And now? “He said he was going to bring gas down, but the war in Iran is now making everything worse.”

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

  • Saprophyte@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You are correct.

    The US population is 340m, 266m are of voting age citizens. DJT got 77m votes. Kamala got 75m. Another 74m didn’t think it was important enough to show up. Russia even dumped a ton of money into the Green party along with GOP donors and was only able to siphon 600k Dem votes away to Stein.

    There are just as many people who voted for fascism as there are who don’t care if a fascist gets put in charge. Only a third of the population was willing to do the bare minimum and just show up to vote. And many of they still shower Trump’s financial supporters with money. Starlink, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Meta,Google, Dell… et cetera.

    Sad state of affairs.