Baffling

Everything in this country has gotten extremely expensive: housing, food, childcare, home and auto insurance, health insurance, healthcare, electricity, education, cars, etc. Each of these things has come to feel like a burden, and this has been going on for a long time. But it’s only now that gasoline prices are high that people are like, “Hey, this is too much!” Americans are content, it seems, to live in a totally rigged system and suffer the continuous depredations of the uber wealthy as long as gas is cheap. They probably wouldn’t even care about the war in Iran if it weren’t making gas prices rise. Their single-mindedness is baffling. I have read articles that attempt to explain it, and I still don’t really understand. I doubt I ever will.