There's a really big divide in this country in terms of awareness of what's going on. Generalizing here but there seem to be two groups of people under 40's who are struggling to live and think the country is near collapse and over 40's who think things are fine, just a little more expensive.

I think the cause is that the US has changed so drastically so quickly, the older boomer types are just clueless.

The younger feel it / experience it.