Not the election results I was hoping. I was hoping and expecting people to do what I thought was right.

And it didn’t happen. Now I have to look back and make sense of it all. Everyone is going to do the same. It’s easy to look back and assign reasons for events that have happened in past but nobody really knows.

I am going to come up with reasons based on my biases and worldview. And whatever makes me make sense of the world.

And here we go.

I failed to account for 2 things:

1. The fact that people are not rational.
2. The fact that the inflation affected most Americans way more than I thought it would.

There is a significant number of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. If they spend every dollar they make, inflation is a disaster for them. People were having trouble putting food on the table. A stressful situation I have to imagine. They were desperate for a change. And they could not risk more of the same.

So they voted for change.

And you might say oh wait Donald Trump’s policies are not going to reduce inflation specially the tariff policy.

And there is where the second part comes in. People are not rational. They have made a desperate short term bet on Trump reducing inflation.

Peace out.