Not that we all did not really already know or sense this, but
this article lays it all out in sobering detail. Using all of this data as a political football, really misses the point. The point is what it portends about the future out there on the Fruited Plain, and it's disturbing. Even more depressing, is that coming up with policy prescriptions that will really make a positive difference are few and far between. Culture trumps governmental policy,, and there is a tendency to blame hostile outside forces (the permissive liberal secular culture, the welfare culture, the anti-intellectual know nothing fundamentalist Christian culture, the racist culture, the sexist culture, the anti-male culture, the narcissistic culture, the I've got mine, screw you culture, you name it), rather than doing some serious introspection.
Charles Murray, that guy that is so controversial, has written a
book about this. Its message, is that outside the upper middle class family culture, it's all going to hell and a hand basket.
