Is America too optimistic for revolt?

Through wars and recessions, America has remained its unaccountably cheerful self. National happiness peaked during the 1970s, baffling those who assumed Vietnam, Watergate, gas-station lines, and inflation would dampen the joy. Even today more than 80 percent of the population rates itself “happy” or “pretty happy,” according to the Pew Research Center, and that figure has held through the downturn.

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