"The American Dream"

 

I used to like Americans, but now I'm not so sure anymore: Somehow the jolly worker who definitely is obtaining the cosy house with the white fence for himself and his family has turned into a bitter and overworked slave. As I see it Americans are down the wrong lane when it comes to non-exploitative social settings as people may have several jobs, but still not the income that keeps things going. If diligent workers have to live paycheck to paycheck the system isn't working the way it should.

"As income inequality has increased substantially since the 1970s, the American Dream has begun to seem less attainable for those who aren't already affluent or born into affluence. According to U.S. Census family income data, real family income began to grow much more among the top income group than among other segments of American society.3 For example, the Federal Reserve's 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances shows that the top 10% of the income distribution earned roughly a quarter of all income and held more than three-quarters of all wealth."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/american-dream.asp

That is not a healthy situation for a society, but still, that doesn't kill off that silly "American Dream": Americans don't unite to break the power system of their exploiters, no, instead of breaking it they dream of how they themselves may become rich. Sadly enough that damned TrickleDown scam that started out as a joke has gotten into them ....

USA is spending more on the military than any other country in the world. Health Care like in other Western countries is non-existent. Also it seems that Americans can't study without getting deep in debt and that too is different from other countries. Ask aquestion that takes a scientific answer and you may get a quote from The Bible. It's weird, also because most Americans seem to have a very strange opinion of the Biblical sayings. I always said that Americans confuse Jesus with Santa and they have a way of seeing all their deeds - good or bad alike - as sanctioned by their god. THAT's not religion, but more like "kidnapping" of the god they are purporting to believe in ....

Science is not popular, and more Americans believe in Genesis than in scientific findings. Why? Are they dumb? No, but this kind of (primarily verbal) "siding with God" gives the ultimate authorization of their own life, beliefs and habits where science puts a question mark with everything they are or believe in. Most likely, everyone all over the world likes to be RIGHT, but the Americans took that preference a bit longer, thus turning themselves into (unconscious or naive) hypocrites ....

America is the only country in the world which fought a war about the ultimate exploitation of their fellow men, namely the Civil War about slavery. However, the point is that when that happened, most other Western countries already had given up the ugly habit of exploting dark-skinned people in a gruesome slavery system ....

Yup, and that's very sad, because then we have come to a very costly standstill ....