The late George Carlin, the outspoken and controversial comedian and modern day philosopher, said it best:
“The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Well these days that’s certainly true.
America’s forefathers and the first colonists risked everything to escape tyranny in Britain, and they fled to the New World to form ‘a more perfect union.’
So what has happened in the last 235 years that has brought the United States to the sorry condition it’s in today?
New American Nightmare
First, it’s important to define what exactly the “American Dream” is anyway? Many people nowadays may not even know.
In fact, for some struggling Americans today the ‘new American Dream’ could be radically different from what it was in the past. Today it could simply be not being foreclosed on, or a few more weeks of unemployment benefits, or more food stamps. That’s how bad it is.
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