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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It is bizarre that Americans seem oblivious to how they’re emerged from the pandemic with a far better economy and higher incomes than anywhere in the world. They’ve left Europe and Asia in the dust. And no, the wealth isn’t just being hoovered up by the rich. The poorest 20 per cent of Americans haven’t seen their real incomes rise this fast in decades.
But polarization is so bad it seems Republicans can’t bring themselves to acknowledge a strong economy if a Democrat occupies the white house. And many on the left reflexively compare the U.S. unfavourably to the rest of the developed world.
The only other explanation I can think of inflation is such a shock to the population - many of whom have never experienced significant inflation in their adult lives - that it negates all other economic gains and metrics.
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I think for a lot of Americans its just a totally foreign concept to consider things beyond their own border. Even if they're aware of int'l news like Ukraine and Palestine, I don't know that it's very natural for them to really grasp what life is like elsewhere. This is a very broad brush of course.