have to these statistics, the numbers are the world in general, not the united states. that sense of unfairness is surely what's fueling america's first agenda. more bewilderingly, the left, traditionally concerned about the poorest of the poor, have improved the lives of at least a billion of the world's most impoverished people. which was better, 1950s, when jim crow boomed in america and women could barely work only as seamstresss and librarians? what group of elites ran the world better than our current hodge podge of politicians and businessmen? even in the west it's easy to take for granted the astounding progress. we live longer. the air and water werer cleaner,