Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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It's the economy stupid. Trump won on the economy. Mamdani won on the economy.
Yup, The problem I'm seeing is there is a strong faction that controls prices but also leans right? This war with Iran should cause fuel prices to skyrocket but because the rich vote right they are able to control them to help Trump.
Yep, it isn’t that socialists and dems run on making things expensive, it’s that conservative ultra wealthy raise prices of goods and services in their very large businesses when dems are in control because they know people will blame dems and not the wealthy who actually set the prices.
Talk about living in peak dystopia. It's all a big game and the working class are just pawns to be played with
Cannon fodder, cogs in the orphan crushing machine, bricks in the wall.. it’s just rich people getting whatever they want at the expense of others.