What Americans Believe

Many Americans live with an entire array of misbeliefs, including: a) that the U.S. is the best country in the world, and b) that attempts to make it better are unpatriotic.

Improvements are slow in the making, however.  Over the last 40 years, the millionaires have become billionaires, and the middle class has become the working poor. That’s an intractable situation for the simple reason that the billionaires own Congress and they don’t want to give their money back.

This chasm between rich and poor isn’t conducive to happy living.  Most of the countries shown at the left are social democracies, with a far more fair and egalitarian approach to government.