Wall Street Journal
By Peggy Noonan
People in politics talk about the right track/wrong track numbers as an
indicator of public mood. This week Gallup had a poll showing only 24% of
Americans feel we're on the right track as a nation. That's a historic low.
Political professionals tend, understandably, to think it's all about the
economy—unemployment, foreclosures, we're going in the wrong direction. I've
long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that
it's also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing
we call our culture.
Now I'd go a step beyond that. I think more and more people are worried about
the American character—who we are and what kind of adults we are
raising.
Every story that has broken through the past few weeks has been about who we
are as a people. And they are all disturbing.
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