Can someone help this Warrior?

I've got no problem with it.

215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won. I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative. And I'm strengthened not just by Mexico's history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always taken from us – and building a government for the working class. ¡Viva la Independencia, Viva México!

It's odd. Gas prices hit me in the wallet just like anyone else. I choose not to view things in a vacuum. Immigration was my biggest motivating factor in the last election. Well, number two after "Kamala is a blithering idiot." The flood coming in has stopped and a bunch of people with no legal right to be here are being removed. That's a good thing. Security in DC and some other large cities has been substantially reduced. It was always possible but it took and act of will. Cries of RACISM are mostly being ignored and crime has reduced somewhat. Also a good thing. I ignore the narcissistic nonsense because it's who and what Trump has always been. He slaps his name on everything. It's annoying but I cannot bring myself to care. Now comes the real problem: things are expensive. I'll ignore gasoline for a minute because it is a special problem. Annual inflation is mostly under control, or at least far, far closer to historical norms. BUT PRICES ARE HIGH argue people dumber than a box of rocks. Yes, the close to 30% total inflation during Biden's reign of drooling shoved prices up drastically and they haven't come down. That's because deflation is a bad thing, a really bad thing. A deflationary economy is a sick, recessionary/depressionary economy. The best you can usually hope for is to grow fast enough to outstrip inflation and eventually catch up. We aren't growing at that rate. As far as spending goes, Trump doesn't seem to care, but the bigger problem is Congress sitting with their thumbs up their collective asses. DOGE identified a bunch of the worst excesses, the most indefensible corruption and overspending. And Congress didn't even really try to address those, which means that they really and truly never plan to reign in spending. At all. If they won't cut the easy stuff, they will never even look at the big stuff. What that means for the future is a dismal, awful, economic implosion eventually. You can't stave it off forever by printing money which, by the way, we should have stopped doing long ago. Apparently we can't stop doing that either. Tariffs are...well, I think they're great leverage to use against trading partners who put tariffs on our goods. The cries of OH NOES THAT IS TEH WRONG are just stupid. I assume you think there's some leverage besides harsh language but as yet none of you have proposed a real one. Now this is where Trump and I differ greatly. While I see tariffs as a tool to be used, he sees them as good in general. I believe he is dead wrong about that. But -because there's always a but- tariffs don't keep increasing unless the president has a tantrum when someone insults him. They increase prices on goods once and then that becomes the new baseline for costs which is indeed higher. However, there is an argument to be made that there is some national security interest in bringing some production back to our shores and paying for the increased prices. That is a fair argument even if you don't agree with it. Now on to gas prices. Every sees them. Everyone feels them. Increased energy costs don't affect just fuel supplies. They affect cost of transportation and production. It impacts pretty much everything. And most of the increase is from uncertainty brought about by the conflict in Iran. Oil prices don't like uncertainty. And conflict in the Middle East creates a lot of uncertainty. I guess the question about whether you support the conflict is twofold: 1) Do you think a country who declared war on us almost 50 years ago and is one of the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world should be allowed to get nuclear weapons, especially since it now has IRBMs, which could reach Europe. I say no. Your opinion might differ. That's fine. 2) If you believe in trying to limit civilian casualties,, do you think we should proceed carefully or simply bomb the entire country into dust? Because if it's the former, the conflict is going to take a while and it's going to impact gas prices until it's over. I'm kind of on board with number two but I also don't want us to get bogged down forever. Use the force necessary to end the conflict as quickly as possible and get out. I remain opposed to ground forces but I want it resolved as quickly as possible. I feel the economic pain as much as anyone, certainly more than the wealthy do because I am not one of them. But I try to consider the economic factors in play. I will be the first to admit that I am not the average voter in this regard, most of whom fixate on whatever shiny object is dangled in front of them.