For most voters, the national narrative is no longer plausible.

[pscot]

this was chillingly captured by a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll from early August that got lost somewhat amid the recent deluge of awful news but deserved closer attention.

It included the jolting finding that 76 percent of Americans ages 18 and older weren’t confident that their children’s generation would fare better than their own. That’s a blunt repudiation of the very idea of America, of what the “land of opportunity” is supposed to be about. For most voters, the national narrative is no longer plausible.

The poll also showed that 71 percent thought that the country was on the wrong track. While that represents a spike, it also affirms a negative mind-set that’s been fixed for a scarily long time. As the Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik has repeatedly noted, more Americans have been saying “wrong track” than “right track” for at least a decade now, and something’s got to give.

But to what or whom can Americans turn?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/opinion/frank-bruni-lost-in-america.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0

[Kalidurga]

1. All of my children are finacially better off than I am/was...

But, they have had to make great sacrifices in order to be better off. They have no time for a personal life. They work odd hours and it's very hard to plan ahead for just about any kind of event. And when I say they are better off than I was it's irrelevant in a big way. It's irrelevant because compared to a couple of decades ago their buying power is diminishing, they work longer hours for what they have, and they might not ever be able to retire. Still yay, they worked their way out of poverty.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Just sad.

Awful.

[daleanime]

3. Kick....

[blkmusclmachine]

4. DC is a racket. Bought & paid for by the 1%. We won't get any satisfaction out of that town, D or R