Why Are They All So Angry? — Manhattan Contrarian

Why Are They All So Angry? — Manhattan Contrarian
"It’s the defining characteristic of today’s progressive left:  Anger. 
And it’s not just the rioters like Antifa, or the unspeakably rude people who confront administration figures in restaurants and gratuitously yell at them. 
Take a look at any of the new icons of the Democratic Party when they are speaking — for example Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Ilhan Omar — and you see them seething with barely controllable anger, if not outright fury.  
Same with essentially every left-wing commenter on CNN or MSNBC.
And I’m just getting to the Democratic presidential candidates. 
...My observation is that, at least for those of the progressive mindset, the less they have to be angry about, the angrier they become.  
You can’t look at the economic history of the United States over the course of my lifetime without seeing tremendous improvements on essentially every measure. 
Here are some statistics that I can easily find, using the mid-60s (when I was in high school) as a baseline:

• Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 70 years in 1965.  Today it is 79.
• Real per capita GDP has gone from about $22,000 in 1965 to $58,000.  It has grown by a factor of more than 2.5. The change in real per capita GDP shows up in numerous measures of physical well-being throughout the economy.  
• One of my favorites is the size of the average new house.  In 1973 (earliest year I can find) it was under 1600 square feet, and by 2015 it had reached about 2700 square feet.  The neighborhood where I was growing up in the 60s consisted of similar houses of about 1200 square feet, many filled with large families.  Ours had 4 kids; a neighbor had 6.  When we went to sell that house in 2004, we were told that no large family nowadays would even consider such a place.  The house could only be sold to a single person.
• In 1965, legally-enforced Jim Crow was just coming to an end.  Today, it is a distant memory..."

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