Jay Bookman at The Atlanta Journal Constitution takes a deep look at the Republican economic legacy:
Sometimes you hear people say that America can no longer afford X, Y or Z because we’re broke. We just don’t have the money. We are not broke. We are not anywhere near broke. But we may in fact be broken.
Our political system is broken, our national will is broken, our sense of ourselves as a people is broken, our commitment to “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” is broken. Our willingness to invest in each other and in our future is broken.
All because some racists in the Republican Party can’t deal with the fact that a black man is President.
For the first time since polling began in 1999, Gallup found that there are more social liberals in the United States than social conservatives.
Gallup reported that the number of respondents who called themselves social liberals has increased to 31%, while the number of self-identified social conservatives has fallen to 30%. The number of Democrats who refer to themselves as social liberals jumped from 47% in 2014 to 53% in 2015. The number of Republicans who call themselves socially conservative has declined from 60% in 2014 to 53% in 2015.