Roughly 60% of poll respondents say that America is on the wrong

Roughly 60% of poll respondents say that America is on the wrong track. Meanwhile, China has resumed its torrid economic growth and has become for the U.S. what Japan was in the 1980s—the seemingly unstoppable Asian force that will soon leave America’s economy behind.

Joel Kotkin, author of The Next 100 million: America in 2050 disagrees somewhat and thinks America just might benefit from the diverse population to overtake American these next 40 years.

‘In stark contrast to its rapidly aging rivals,’ Mr. Kotkin writes in ‘The Next Hundred Million,’ ‘America’s population is expected to expand dramatically in coming decades.’ He points to a slowly rising birth rate and to the continuing in-migration of young workers from poorer countries. Most of America’s population growth between 2000 and 2050, he notes, ‘will be in its racial minorities, particularly Asians and Hispanics, as well as in a growing mixed-race population.’ No other developed country, he says, ‘will enjoy such ethnic diversity.’

Observations

The middle class that once was a hallmark of America’s success has vanished under the poor leadership of our recent administrations.