The American Dream is something that at times seems wonderful, yet elusive, and other times horribly coercive- a fake set of ideals that were never realized and perhaps never will be. Personally, I assume it is starting your own business, having a family, and having money to put them through college. For the country, the Dream is economic, gender, race, sexual, age, and physical equality that would allow any and everybody to get that business and support that family.
Oftentimes, politicians (and those who tumble underneath them) are quick to allude to some mythical Golden Age that no one has ever actually known. There was always discrimination against women and minorities and homosexuals and the disabled (still is), so this golden age only refers to white male farmers or business owners? Because the 70s had Nixon. The 80s had crack and Reagan. But it sure is great rhetoric that works on a lot of people thirsty to wrap their hands around something.
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