Comments by "Major Moolah" (@majormoolah5056) on "Trump's immunity claim: US democracy in crisis | Ian Bremmer | World In :60" video.

Happy new year to Ian and his GZero Media crew! I am very much looking forwards to your coverage of 2024, much more than the actual year itself, at least in geopolitics. I was reading Fareed Zakaria's recent column in Foreign Affairs, about how US is doing so much better than people believe. This is the wrong approach to the coming elections. If you tell the American voters that GDP is booming and the stock market is better than ever, he will become more likely to vote for Trump. Because looking at the sociological indicators, the average American is hurting. What they care about is the price of groceries, transportation and living. They are in a situation where they simply aim to get by without a crisis. Think back to school about Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Voters will care much more about the basics than they do about soaring rhetoric at Valley Forge. The other problem with Mr. Zakaria's approach is that it prevents discussion on actual, important topics. US has a population of 335 million and change. US workforce is 162 million and income taxpayers are at 129 million. You tally in the cost of US healthcare -- twice that of France -- and an aging population and you begin to see the real issues. US fertility rate is 1.7 compared to 1.5 in EU. Living expectancy in US has been dropping for close to 20 years now so the needs of the elderly will be great indeed. US median age is 38.1 compared with 44.9 in the super-aged Germany. Per capita immigration into US is about the same as in Western Europe. So US literally has the same demographic bomb as Europe. Now in US you still have the broken immigration laws passed back in the Clinton era, coupled with the 9/11 draconian measures. This is something that can and should be addressed in political discourse. Say what you will about the state of democracy in Italy and Poland, but demographics have been campaign issues in both.
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