COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE ON INVESTMENTWATCH
“GOOD-BY AMERICAN
DREAM”
Sorry, but the expression "American Dream' was never
anything but an advertising slogan.
Yes, America for a while was a place like no other for
making money and raising your status, but that has been over for a while.
Only with the complete flattening of all competitors in WWII
did it have any meaning, but that time is over.
Competitors of every kind are now developing around the
world.
The slogan can never have the same meaning.
Of course, a regrettable side effect of using this slogan
was applying it to all things American, including its corrupt and
not-very-democratic political system as though it were somehow responsible for
all the bounties that were truly just the result of good luck.
