The biggest change I’ve seen when I have addressed audiences the past few years is that more and more people tell me they don’t believe their children or grandchildren will have as good a life as they did. There is real doubt among many that the American dream is alive.
It’s not just that 70 percent of Americans think we’re on the wrong track right now. A more worrisome number is that patriotism is also at a record low — a recent Gallup poll found that only 38 percent are extremely proud to be American. Lots of pundits and doomsayers have embraced the hyper-political narrative that achieving success and happiness in America is a hope of yesteryear.
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