The promise that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get ahead, or if you don’t, surely your children will, was broken long ago. But there's a way to turn this around.
American dream, lol. The first paragraph phrases it better:
the lid of the coffin in which the “American Dream” was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut.
But I’d still argue that the American Dream has always been just a dream. A cynical dream. It always required ignoring the 999 others who didn’t make it, most of them in abject poverty. In other words “climbing over dead bodies to get to the top”.
Or:
U.S. social mobility, which never did measure up to its mythic renderings.
American dream, lol. The first paragraph phrases it better:
But I’d still argue that the American Dream has always been just a dream. A cynical dream. It always required ignoring the 999 others who didn’t make it, most of them in abject poverty. In other words “climbing over dead bodies to get to the top”.
Or:
The American Dream excluded blacks, natives, and women from the beginning
Which is why the whites racists want it back. Basically MAGA in a nutshell.