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"The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
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RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves
You probably did hear it, and you did those things anyway.  The data collected only validates something that's been a truism of folk knowledge for generations.

It's presence is ubiquitous in common expressions, songs, novels, movies, and the lived experience of the poor. It's at least as old as the alger myth, which may have been the authors direct response to those criticisms and general feeling. The failures (and end) of initial westward expansion created circumstances or exposed a reality that deadened whatever sense of unlimited american opportunity and mobility that existed prior to, after which point it carried on in the uninformed fantasies of migrants from other countries whose only experience of the US were those very same propagandist myths and legends. On life support, it got a hell of an assist by simply disregarding the demographics of the US for which american opportunity had never been true in the first place.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: "The American Dream" is just a myth we tell ourselves - by The Grand Nudger - April 16, 2019 at 9:56 am

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