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The US has lost faith in the American dream. Is this the end of the country as we know it? (www.theguardian.com)

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27878542

After one Trump presidency and on the eve of another, it is now clear that a once mighty global superpower is allowing its gaze to turn inward, to feed off resentment more than idealism, to think smaller.

Public sentiment – not just the political class – feels threatened by the flow of migrants once regarded as the country’s lifeblood. Global trade, once an article of faith for free marketeers and architects of the postwar Pax Americana, is now a cancer eating away at US prosperity – its own foreign invasion.

Military alliances and foreign policy no longer command the cross-party consensus of the cold war era, when politics could be relied upon to “stop at the water’s edge”, in the famous formulation of the Truman-era senator Arthur Vandenberg.

Now the politics don’t stop at all, for any reason. And alliances are for chumps.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

The American dream has always been a lie to get people to grind the 9-5 (more like 3 jobs and a side hustle nowadays) for the benefit of the capitalists who steal the value of our labour, and to manufacture consent for all sorts of evils via another lie that is exceptionalism.

Also, while we might not call it the American dream in other countries, the same capitalist bullshit is peddled all over the globe.

It's about fucking time people stopped believing in it, the more people get disillusioned, the likelier we are to achieve actual change, and not just a superficial change to the heads of the pyramid.