No, they matter ALL THE TIME! And that’s how we should ALL be thinking. They matter a great deal. People are having to choose between buying food or driving to their jobs – those that are fortunate enough to have jobs, that is.
Note that the people having to make these choices are of all political persuasions. We are from all parts of the country, we come from different educational and cultural backgrounds, and we are all facing different challenges.
But the one thing that we have in common is that we’re part of a huge middle class that is being negatively affected by economic forces, and we have to find a way to deal with it.
The last thing we need to be doing is splitting into factions and battling each other on stuff like this. It is not only unhelpful, it is destructive. It distracts us from the tasks at hand, and is demoralizing in the process. WE aren’t the enemy.
