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Wait... people thought "I feel your pain" was sincere?
The thing is, sincere or not, he didn't write off voters valid concerns. "It's the economy, stupid!" and all that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid
Biden should have a statement along the lines of "Look, I know grocery prices are still up, but at least we're not fighting for toilet paper like we were under Trump."
Which would acknowledge a) yeah, things still aren't where they need to be but also b) we're doing better than 4 years ago.
I think a lot of the problem is that the current messaging is "look how great the economy is doing!" Which doesn't ring true for people who have watched the price of everything but an hour of their work go up.
It's galling to hear that we should be happy that billionaires have more yacht money because they're gouging us.
Yes, exactly this.
What's even worse is that you can look at comparisons of wages and inflation, and you can see that since early 2023, wages have been outpacing inflation. But even though that's true broadly, on a statistical level, that's not the way people are experiencing it. In other words, feelings don't care about the facts. Things are genuinely getting better, and are better now under Biden than they were under Trump, and yet, that's not how people feel.
Thank you for letting me know that my bank account is lying to me and that everything is great.
Anecdotal evidence isn't evidence.
Cool. Tell people who are suffering that everything is great.
To point out the obvious, on any curve there are going to be people above/in front of the curve, and below/behind the curve. In the case of wage growth versus inflation, more people are currently beating inflation in their wage growth than there are people lagging. That's the way statistics works; if nine out of ten people are beating inflation, then yeah, there's going to be one guy that isn't. Just like even when there's record levels of employment, there are always going to be some people that just can't seem to find a job.
You are behind the curve in at least two different ways.
This is shitty messaging, and it's all democrats know how to do.
Ordering people to be happy when they have no reason to be and then being an insulting prick about it when they don't immediately comply is a garbage way to behave.