{"id":7029,"date":"2014-08-13T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2014-08-13T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T13:39:05","slug":"this-fractious-nation-is-united-by-one-thing-lost-faith-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-fractious-nation-is-united-by-one-thing-lost-faith-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;This fractious nation is united by one thing: lost faith in the United States.&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-americans-optimism-is-dying\/2014\/08\/12\/f81808d8-224c-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Americans\u2019 optimism is dying &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/dana-milbank\">Dana Milbank<\/a> Opinion writer<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the gloom goes beyond wealth, gender, race, region, age and ideology. This fractious nation is united by one thing: lost faith in the United States. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>[T]he problem is the result of two decades of scorched-earth politics. That\u2019s bad news for the rest of us, though, because the problem is larger than any leader\u2019s ability to bring hope and change. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, this is less about economic reality than about our political system \u2014 our lack of confidence that our political leaders, regardless of party, are equipped to deal with the future.\u201d &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartresearch.com\/about\/bios\/yang.html\">Fred Yang<\/a>, the Democratic pollster who conducted the survey along with Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/pos.org\/about\/partners-and-vice-presidents\/bill-mcinturff-va\/\">Bill McInturff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/dana-milbank-americans-optimism-is-dying\/2014\/08\/12\/f81808d8-224c-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank\">Americans\u2019 optimism is dying &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take it back before Idiot DUHbya and Dark Lord Cheney, back to Raygun, or further to Tricky Dick and thug Agnew, or further to Goldwater. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans\u2019 optimism is dying &#8211; The Washington Post By Dana Milbank Opinion writer the gloom goes beyond wealth, gender, race, region, age and ideology. This fractious nation is united by one thing: lost faith in the United States. \u2026 [T]he problem is the result of two decades of scorched-earth politics. That\u2019s bad news for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/this-fractious-nation-is-united-by-one-thing-lost-faith-in-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;This fractious nation is united by one thing: lost faith in the United States.&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}