America the Miserable

Has America become the land of the miserable? In a provocative essay published in the UK, a British immigrant to the United States finds that the country has changed in measurable ways from the time he first came here in 1977. Back then, he says, Britain was a country that looked at broken things and said "what a pity, it's broken." In America, people said "it's broken, but we'll soon fix it." Has that optimism and lack of fatalism disappeared from American life? And if so, why? Read on...

America the Miserable | The Spectator