Unemployment is at historic lows — for whites, for blacks, for Latinos, for Asians, for men, for women, for just about everybody. The stock market is up, and so is consumer confidence.
Even Americans who don’t like the president give him high marks on how he’s handling the economy. Wages are rising for the least skilled and least educated among us. We’re not at war. Except with each other.
We’re bitterly divided in ways that aren’t good for the country. We’ve chosen sides and we’re dug in. I remember 1968, when this nation was angry and divided over the war in Vietnam. Now we’re angry and divided over everything.
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