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Insightful, but sobering, article from the Washington Post citing a WSJ/NBC poll about how optimism in the country is on the decline. With endless political bickering, an inattentive president, a feckless Congress, and the world on fire, who wouldn't be depressed? If we no longer have confidence, is it all truly lost?
The gloom is because of income inequality and wage stagnation. Fix those and our spirits will lift. But with our government in the hands of those who benefit from income inequality and wage stagnation, the hope for improvement in those areas is slim to none.
Americans no longer have confidence in the political and financial systems-and rightfully so as our country has been pillaged by Multi-National Corporations and Global Banks the past few decades-and the theft has intensified the past 5 years with quantitive easing.
We must address the corruption and global collusion before we can move forward.
Obama was supposed to do this, but failed horrifically.
It's probably more due to partisan whining on social media.
You know what most people think about politics? Not very much if at all.
They just want a job and to know that their children, if they work hard, can make a better life for themselves then you did. Thats what 90% of Americans want and care about.
The fact that parents are seeing their children fail, and fall behind even where the parents were at 25 is killing our optimism.
You may blame that on politics, and surely it has an effect, but in reality we aren't paying people enough in this country, and others we pay to much. Employers are going to have to start adding grease to the economy, and that means pay people more. We also need more people in our country, because with our declining birth rates, there isn't demand for new workers.
We have some major issues coming. If we can fix immigration and increase our rate of population growth to 2.1 or higher, the economy will turn around all on its own
Too many people living in echo chambers of their own choosing where the only opinions they hear are those that they already hold and agree with.
If people choose to revel in the negative, of course they won't be optimistic.
How many go on and on about out-of-control crime when in fact there is less crime now than at any other time in our history.
How many teens aren't getting pregnant?
How many are graduating from HS and going on to college?
How many people are buying houses and new cars?
I could find positive reports about all of these things, but, people would make a point of denying that they are true or otherwise find fault.
I am totally optimistic!! I know at 50, that I will outlive the current incarnation of our oppressive government. And any instance of not so much a collapse, but a serious contraction of the federal sphere of influence will immediately put my area off the map. If out neighbors all get together tomorrow, I think we have enough to make our own little self contained, self sufficient community.
I am totally optimistic!! I know at 50, that I will outlive the current incarnation of our oppressive government. And any instance of not so much a collapse, but a serious contraction of the federal sphere of influence will immediately put my area off the map. If out neighbors all get together tomorrow, I think we have enough to make our own little self contained, self sufficient community.
I'm in my mid-twenties, and I know I won't outlive any such thing. The drive towards that unique confluence of repressive malice and idiocratic full-retard status will continue, unabated.
Those that have will continue to get more until there is nothing left to steal even from each other. then the system collapse and the have nots get a chance.
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