If one or two things cost more, you can attribute it to supply chain issues. If everything costs more, it's safe to call it inflation. One of the biggest problems is that too many people have resigned to accepting inflation as an inevitability, hence their demands for more free money. Combine that with the fixed pie fallacy, hence point № 12 in "Make-Believe America," and you get even more dialectical insanity.

BTW, if you think Bill Astore and Andrew Zehner are delusional, check out this take from Denise Donaldson: https://ponderments.substack.com/p/its-still-the-economy-stupids

The supply of nonsense out there is endless, and these obscure little echo chambers breed just as much craziness as the big tech platforms.