It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps. There, the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

Standing alongside his son’s Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy.

He had voted for President Donald Trump in the last election. He believed Trump had strengthened the economy in his first term, and he wanted more of that.

“I thought that he was going to bring some of those things back,” said Castillo, a 43-year-old factory worker. And now? “He said he was going to bring gas down, but the war in Iran is now making everything worse.”

It seems a country divided on so many fronts is finding common ground in pain at the pump, where the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the political spectrum.

    • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      Nixon didn’t actually get into anything in the middle East. He armed up Israel and put our troops on alert, but didn’t get into any shooting. Granted, that’s because he was busy with atrocities in the far East. So it’s more just a case that he was already busy.

    • TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Sure, if you want to be pedantic. Dems never sold a war to the country based on lies, Bush senior might get a pass since Hussein actually invaded Kuwait but again the only reason we would protect Kuwait is because of oil.