my topic is the death of the American dream… for centuries America was considered to be the ‘‘city on the hill’’ which was a statement that in America, we had the moral leadership of the world… that thought had a
utopian feel to it… that America had such a high standing in the world was based on its moral superiority… and we had immigrants from all over the world wanting to start over, in the land of plenty… where the streets were paved in Gold…and all one had to do to be rich was simple work hard…
we fast forward to today… where our reputation is in tatters… and no one believes in the American dream anymore… and how do we know this?
Everyone says so… Sammy/Lori has stated a thousand times and in thread after thread after thread, the fallen state of America today… it is a doomed country… or so Sammy has told us… every hour on the hour…
and Sammy is not alone… IQ45 has also said so,
multiple times in multiple ways… In fact the entire right wing mantra has been about the decline of America and its values for quite a while now… Barry Goldwater was just a man ahead of his times, when he stated that 60 years or so ago… and he was demolished in his presidential run for believing in the loss of the American dream…and IQ45 became president because of his constant refrain of the death of the America of his youth… This loss of the ‘‘city on the hill’’ was a common refrain of Ronald Raygun… and has the right wing mantra of the ‘‘death of the city on the hill’’
come true? Yes, because of the policies and actions of the right wing… lower taxes doesn’t help anyone…
and it is certifiable not true that lowering taxes helps
bring in more taxes later or grows the economy…
In fact, one could make the argument that every single right wing policy has in fact made the problems of America worse…less government, less taxes,
building more prisons, destroying public education,
increasing the wealth of the already wealthy on the backs of the working poor and middle class…
that has been the public policy of the GOP since
1980… in fact, we can easily make the argument that
Raygun is the author of many of our current problems
affecting us today…homelessness is one of them…
and the rise of poverty is directly tied into Rayguns
public policies…
and the other aspects of the death of the American dream? the fact is that we know that there is no justice in America today… IQ45 has shown us that justice
is simply bought and sold… his appeal after appeal
after appeal in an attempt to delay his many trials
is an example of how the justice system can be manipulated and perverted just with money…
a two-track judicial system is, in part, why we no
longer believe in America as the ‘‘city on the hill’’’
many of the arguments defending IQ45 is not about
if he committed those illegal actions, but he has a right to commit those actions… that is basically his defense
in two of his trials, the Georgia and Florida cases…
he can commit crimes and the average citizen cannot
has become his de facto defense…
and this degrades, devalues the idea of the American
‘‘city on the hill’’ the morally superior nation is no longer
morally superior… we are average now, at best…
and politically, the GOP/MAGA party is basically arguing for IQ45 to be a dictator… and that democracy is dead…
if this is true, and democracy is dead, then everything we have fought for over the last 250 years was for nothing… the dead of the two world wars, died for nothing…for they were fighting for the idea that
‘‘America is the city on the hill’’ and our leading value is democracy… and all that stands behind this idea of democracy is also gone…of freedom, of justice, of
liberty and the ‘‘pursuit of happiness’’ all gone, denounced as being un-American… and to what value do ‘‘we bend the knee to’’?
Money… our commitment to our new faith is quite
strong… we hold all our prayers for Mammon… all hail
the god of money… and as far as ‘‘the city on the hill’’
goes? if it can’t be bought and sold, it has no value in our America today… we have become strictly a utilitarian society/state today… with no faith in anything so ancient as honor or truth or justice or freedom…
cold hard cash is our only faith/truth…
and the American dream dies because we can’t afford it anymore… the America dream is about buying new things, cars, homes, TV sets, lovely new couches…
but what about values like justice, hope, peace, love,
freedom or even morality?
we can’t have those because they cost too much money… see the horror on the face of a conservative when says we should raise taxes to feed and house the poor… what about all the suffering taxpayer? thus putting the taxpayer as above the lives of the poor and
destude… people are starving and homeless but heaven forbid, we might inconvenience the almighty taxpayer… putting money before people’s lives…
yep, that is the modern value we hold, not the idea
of the morality of the ‘‘city on the hill’’ but that money is
more important and has more value than people lives…
that is the new way, the modern way of thinking…
and what of the idea of America being the ‘shining light’', the beacon of hope and of new beginning in the world… the promise of the ''city on the hill", does that still stand?
No, and this loss of the American dream, has shattered into a million pieces on the back of profits, of seeking out fame and titles and power…
those are the new idols of America…and the loss of the American dream…
Kropotkin