Americans Overwhelmingly Agree About the Future of the American Dream – But It’s Not Pretty

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Though Barack Obama campaigned on being a “uniter, not a divider,” his Presidency has been defined by division, stagnation and bitterness.

However, a new survey reports that Americans are now united in one way: Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed don’t believe their children will have a better life than they do.

From the Washington Post:

When asked if “life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been for us,” fully 76 percent said they do not have such confidence. Only 21 percent did. That was the worst ever recorded in the poll; in 2001, 49 percent were confident and 43 percent not.

The responses are startlingly similar among women and men, Democrats and Republicans, rich and poor, white and Hispanic.