the american dream was only true for a privileged few and it's death is the growing awareness that it was only a dream.
we are capable of making the american dream a reality; but our adherence to our oligarchical systems, from both the american left and right, guarantees that it will remain a dream.
Asad Haider makes a good point about this in his book Mistaken Identity, namely (IIRC) that the “middle class” has always been an illusion to propel labor and to divide the populace along lines of race and class (which is one of capitalism’s goals). Separately, if we look back at Henry Ford’s famous “five dollars a day” incentive, it wasn’t without a catch— his Sociological Department inspected every aspect of workers’ lives, including their families, to ensure they were appropriately American (white picket fence type stuff, down to nutrition and children’s educational performance). It’s been the white male mythos forever, and needs to be flushed down the toilet.
Huh, what happened to the gravel institute? I was subscribed and liked the videos for the most part