Déclin des États-Unis? Les Américains sont pessimistes (Pew research Center)

Nos voisins américains sont pessimistes et inquiets quand on les interroge sur l'avenir de leur pays. Ils s'inquiètent de l'écart croissant entre les riches et les pauvres, de la polarisation politique et de l'importance des États-Unis sur la scène internationale.

 "A new Pew Research Center survey focused on what Americans think the United States will be like in 2050 finds that majorities of Americans foresee a country with a burgeoning national debt, a wider gap between the rich and the poor and a workforce threatened by automation.

Majorities predict that the economy will be weaker, health care will be less affordable, the condition of the environment will be worse and older Americans will have a harder time making ends meet than they do now. Also predicted: a terrorist attack as bad as or worse than 9/11 sometime over the next 30 years.

 These grim predictions mirror, in part, the public’s sour mood about the current state of the country. The share of Americans who are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country – seven-in-ten in January of 2019 – is higher now than at any time in the past year."

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/03/21/public-sees-an-america-in-decline-on-many-fronts/