I'm fortunate in that I am still on disability but I can work up to 20 hours a week. Not sure if I can claim unemployment. My wife and I along with the kiddo's social security also apparently make too much for me to be on SNAP even tho we can't afford food so that's why I don't really have much to eat.
Looks like it's 44F out there and partly cloudy.
At minimum our relative economic standing to the rest of the world has improved dramatically over the past 4 years. That’s the real way to measure “are you better off than 4 years ago?” because it takes into account the base state.
I agree the stock market doesn’t indicate the people’s personal finances. But there are many other stats that say the economy is humming and people are doing well.
This is going to sound tone deaf and out of touch but it’s the truth: What people perceive about their situation and what the reality of their situation is are different things. Where are the stats that say people are so much worse off than 4 years ago? Trump and conservative media have succeeded in convincing people they are worse off when they really aren’t. People think they are doing worse because they get sticker shock when they go to the grocery store but forget that they are also making more money!
The real issues to tackle are housing and runaway corporate profits causing wealth inequality which are issues that have been building for years.
The real question is why do they want to destroy Israel. Part of the reason is their land has been taken and settled by Israel since wwii. And I’m not saying that’s a good reason or an excuse for their behavior. These are heinous organizations.
You also have to remember there are many Lebanese who do not support hezbollah. In fact before the conflict they may have even hated hezbollah more than Israel. There are also some who support Hezbollah simply because the Lebanese government is a completely corrupt mess and they provide some type of order in society. My bet is the support for anti Israel groups has only grown as a result of the civilians being killed.