OP-ED | Fed Up? Yes. Nasty? No. | CT News Junkie
Opinion columnist Peter Funt says that if we listen to pollsters and politicians, or consume heavy doses of social media and cable-TV news, we might come away thinking the nation is in a collective bad mood. But after an 18-day road trip from New Hampshire to Florida, his sense is that folks are frustrated with pretty much everything over which they have no control: the economy, politics and global conflict, to name just three biggies. But it’s a mistake to conclude that they’re taking it out on each other.