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Originally Posted by innov8
Then you don't have a chance, Attrill. Having the right attitude to get what
you want makes your dream possible. My dream four years ago was to own
a 900sf home... today my dream is to upgrade to maybe 1400sq. Everything’s
doable if your willing to give a little here and not spend frivolously over there.
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I don't see it having anything to do with me - I'm happily married with a healthy, happy, hilarious baby daughter and own exactly the type of house I want (hell, there isn't even that much I want for my shop now that I have an arc welder). My life is great, but that isn't how I judge the health of the US or the American Dream. It isn't my dream, it's the American Dream.
I see the death of the American Dream as something that has to do with a change in the attitude of Americans and the domination of the political system by corporations and established interests.
There are a lot of different definitons of the American Dream, but the first (and best to me) is this:
"that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."
It will take years to undo the damage the Republicans have done to these ideals over the last 6 years, and maybe then we can start talking about the American Dream again.