WASHINGTON – We have all manner of policy proposals from the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, but there’s a sobering disconnect between what they’re advocating and the large problems the country actually faces. The candidates seem caught in a time warp. Democrats plug new entitlements (college subsidies, paid family leave). Republicans embrace tax cuts. All this is familiar; it’s also a flight from reality.
Whoever wins next November will inherit three major domestic problems that, though obvious, are downplayed because the politics are so unfavorable. Together, these three realities will go a long way toward defining 21st-century America.
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