Can It. Throw it away. Flush it down the falls.
This American Dream that has cramped our nation's imagination for decades will, if not discarded, strip we 99% of Americans of even the last crumbs of real freedom while the 1% uses this as a shield to hide behind their "free market" ransacking of the planet.
It is because of this dream that all the old attitudes about gender, race, sexual orientation, fundamentalism, and xenophobia have reared their ugly heads. This is because our blind adherence to this American dream has left us passive, alone, unnable to think, and unnable to question. We drown in endless accumulation of stuff, rather than face the hordes of "others" that differ in any way from the tiny circle we were raised with.
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