Say Goodbye to The American Dream

My sister-in-law is going back to school. This time, she’s getting a license in spiritual healing. I don’t even know what that means, just that it involves horseshoes and incense. This is her last chance, she says.

This time she’s going to live her dreams.

She’s going all in. She’s moving her family across the country. She’s taking out more loans. She has no plan, other than to sink herself further into debt (and to spiritually heal people). The irony is that she might actually make a lot of money. If there’s one thing we know about Americans, it’s that we’re all experiencing huge amounts of spiritual pain.

My family is a good barometer for what’s going on in America at the moment. We’ve got parents sailing into comfortable retirement who don’t understand why everyone complains so much. We’ve got clueless suburbanites getting angry over Disney reboots. We’ve got geriatric millennials struggling to get by, and dream chasers in denial.

We’ve got it all.

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The American dream just died.

Let’s face it, the American dream has flatlined for good. Its biggest defenders are now building ponzi schemes and selling dream rocks or goop. Most of them don’t even live in America, although they’ll take a little time out of their day to tell you why you’re so lucky to be here.

These people have lost their grip on reality. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of books describing the situation we’re in:

Evil Geniuses, by Kurt Andersen

The Tyranny of Merit, by Michael J. Sandel

Squeezed, by Alissa Quart

Broke in America, by Joanne Samuel Goldblum

Poorly Understood, by Mark Robert Rank

Nomadland, Jessica Bruder

Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman

Taken together, books like these paint a vivid portrait of American collapse, and a system designed to keep us poorer than ever. They’re a stark rebuttal to the lies we’re told about individual effort. In fact, the next time someone tells you to stop complaining, you can probably copy-paste this list instead of spending an afternoon showing them charts and graphs.

Those of us who do live here see what’s going on. There’s no way the middle class recovers from the sideshow of this economy. There is no American dream anymore, if ever, not since the early 2000s. The longer we pretend it’s still alive, the more damage we do to ourselves.

Here’s an accurate snapshot:

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Home ownership is dead.

Most of us will never own a home now, thanks to a combination of factors — including real estate giants scooping up entire neighborhoods in the latest buying frenzy. The mainstream media is now busy persuading us to accept renting as the new norm. We know what that’s like.

Renters have no rights.

Say goodbye to your pets. Say goodbye to hanging pictures on the walls. Say goodbye to a yard where you might’ve grown your own vegetables. Say goodbye to peace and quiet.

This is what the American elite want.

They want us to be poor. They want us to own nothing. The less we own, the less power we have to resist.

They don’t even know what to do with the billions of dollars they’ve stolen from Americans over the last decade. So they’re buying yachts and launching themselves into space. They’re tantalizing us with meme coins and hosting late night comedy shows.

It’s truly pathetic.