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When people at the highest levels of the media and other elites in fields like politics talk about the challenges of life in America in 2025, they often do so with a detached, 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’s like to go get your regular prescriptions refilled and be told that, thanks to the “changes,” your medications are no more, or that they are now expensive.
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Even though Trump continues to fantasize about two dollars a gallon gas, you may have grimaced as you filled up your tank to visit family and friends over the holidays.
The only reason food prices on certain items are lower during the holidays is because supermarkets take losses in a desperate attempt to lure people into stores to buy other, more expensive items. Retailers are expected to raise prices immediately after the start of the new year.
With everything we have to do just to keep our heads above water, 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 understand the struggle most people are enduring right now. When Trump talks about food prices, he might as well be talking about spaceflight, because he has the same level of personal experience in both cases.
My Thanksgiving wish for you is that for one day, you can ignore politics. If you have enough or more than enough to eat, savor every bite. If you are surrounded by people you love, appreciate them, laugh and smile, and understand that the moment you are in is to be embraced and appreciated. I want every person who reads this to feel warm, safe, and loved, because that’s what really matters.
These difficult times seem to be coming to an end. The current administration and the ruling party are failing. They are rejected by the vast majority of Americans.
If you are one of our readers around the world for whom today is just another Thursday and not a public holiday, I wish you the same.
Regular stories will resume on Friday.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.