'The miserable deficiency of 'equality, justice, and democracy' in the U.S. is precisely the source of the rage felt by millions of Americans on either end of the political spectrum.' GaryIndiana speaks truth to the fiction of the American Dream.
Improbably, or not, Wikipedia features a definition of the “American Dream,” to wit: a “national ethos … in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children.” If you Google further, you’ll discover another item about the American dream on the Smithsonian website: 100 years ago, it discloses, the phrase in question “meant the opposite of what it does now.
Like most dreams, either version of this one tends to evaporate upon contact with waking reality. Something sleazy adheres to the word “opportunity,” namely the word “opportunist.” The George W. Bush administration saw the 9/11 attacks as an opportunity for the defense industry and Halliburton; nearly every member of Congress, and every president except Carter, leaves office infinitely richer than when they went in. That is, when they have the good sense to leave.
The miserable deficiency of “equality, justice, and democracy” in the United States is precisely the source of the rage felt by millions of Americans on either end of the political spectrum. The rage that bleeds from headlines and makes it impossible to think of the U.S. as a viable society. Nothing works; our health system is a corporate scam; a
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