Our Middle American Life

You work hard but feel like you are falling behind.You look at our politics and wonder if you have been left behind.You pay your bills and taxes. You try to save for retirement, afford a home, raise a family, and maybe take an occasional vacation.You are not asking to be rich.You just want the American Dream to still be within reach.And politically? You have grown tired of feeling like you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. Tired of the outrage. Tired of being told that your neighbor is the enemy. Tired of two political parties that seem more interested in fighting each other than fighting for people like you.You are not a partisan zealot.You just want our politics to value people over partisanship.Our Middle American Life is about the millions of Americans living somewhere in the middle – both politically and economically.Through personal experiences, historical perspective, and an examination of America's changing economic and political landscape, Brian Groesser explores how the American Dream has become increasingly difficult to achieve and why so many Americans feel unrepresented by the political system.But this book isn't simply about the problems facing middle America. It's about recognizing the power that ordinary Americans still possess to shape the country's future.It is about what happened to the life we were promised, how we got here, and why those of us in the middle are the ones with the power to change where we go next.This isn't a book about left versus right.It is a book about us.