Not so thankful anymore! Only 36% of voters think the American Dream is still attainable – in damning indictment of US under Biden

Only 36 percent of voters still believe in the American Dream, according to a new poll that serves as a damning indictment of the state of the nation under President Joe Biden.

It’s a significant drop from 2022, when 68 percent of Americans said they believe those who work hard will get ahead, the new Wall Street Journal/NORC survey found.

Meanwhile, half of respondents said life in America is worse than it was 50 years ago, compared to just 30 percent who thought it had gotten better.

When asked whether the country’s economic and political system is “racked against people like me,” half of respondents agreed and 39 percent disagreed.

The survey shows that Americans feel insecure about their prospects of moving up the social and economic ladders, even after the country’s recovery from the pandemic.

The new figures are more evidence that Americans are pessimistic about the state of the country a year before the presidential election

Women were more insecure about the American Dream than men: Only 28 percent of female respondents said they still believed they could get ahead with hard work, compared to 45 percent of men who answered the same.

Young adults also appeared to have less confidence in the ideal of progress for hard work; 28 percent of voters under 50 said they still believe in the concept, compared to 48 percent of voters 65 and older.

The new figures are more evidence that Americans are pessimistic about the state of the country a year before the presidential election.

Earlier this month, a poll from Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research showed similarly dismal results for the Biden administration.

Only 14 percent of voters said they think his policies have made them better off, and overall, nearly 70 percent said Biden’s economic policies had hurt the U.S. economy or had no impact.

Additionally, 33 percent said they believed the president’s policies had “hurt the economy a lot.”

The results come as a series of polls show the president losing to former President Donald Trump, his likely Republican challenger, in key battlegrounds that could decide the 2024 election.

The Biden campaign, in turn, points out that all that matters is what voters do in the voting booth, and that Democrats scored a slew of victories in last week’s elections.

And Biden administration officials believe they have a good news story to tell about the economy after bringing inflation back from post-pandemic highs of more than nine percent.

The president himself has often delved into “Bidenomics” — his effort to revive the nation’s industrial sector and create good-paying jobs.

“When Donald Trump looks at America, he sees a failing nation,” Biden said during a campaign stop in Chicago on Thursday. “When I look at America, I see the strongest economy in the world… leading the world again, the ability to set the world’s standards.”

Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research surveyed 1,004 registered voters across the country.

Only 26 percent said Biden’s policies had helped.

When asked what caused them the most financial stress, about 82 percent of respondents said price increases.

“Every group – Democrats, Republicans and independents – calls rising prices by far the biggest economic threat. . . and the biggest source of financial stress,” said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School in Michigan.

Democratic strategists Global Strategy Group and Republican polling firm North Star Opinion Research surveyed 1,004 registered voters across the country

“That’s bad news for Biden, especially considering how little he can do to reverse the perception of prices before Election Day.”

The Biden campaign has dismissed the dismal polling as nothing more than “noise” and pointed to similar negative headlines a year before Barak Obama was re-elected president in 2012.

Last week, Michael Tyler, Biden-Harris 2024 communications director, distributed a memo after Democrats pulled off a strong set of election results, with the party taking control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly, the governor’s mansion in Kentucky, and with Ohio voters enshrine the right to abortion.

“It will be a close election, but this is a president and a team that does not shy away from battle,” he wrote.

“Joe Biden has been left out time and time again and has proven pollsters and experts wrong. This is the time to put your head down, get it done and bring this thing home in a year.”