What’s Wrong?

Sometimes, Atrios gets a bit pedantic for my tastes, but he often demonstrates some real insight into an issue.  Today, he’s caught without an answer, but his questions get right to the core of how Americans feel these days..

Malaise

There have been 3 presidents during my adult life – Bush, Clinton, Bush – a period of optimism bookended by pessimism. At the end of Bush I there was a recession. It wasn’t a very big one but it seemed to be accompanied by growing pessimism about the future. Maybe it was just that I was graduating from college roughly around that time, but there was a sense of diminished opportunity, of diminished options. That changed [...]

Tags: Atrios, Bush, Clinton, Economy

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