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The Dream™ was something thought up by marketing people on fifth avenue and sold to an extremely small subset of white wealthy suburban veterans returning from wwii and their boomer children. It wasn’t and still isn’t a thing for the vast majority of america but we allow this old bullshit to shape what people think murica is, hence why we get immigrants that come here thinking it’s white picket fences and bbqs when in reality it’s living in a tent and probably getting shot by some racist retiree hopped up on fox news.
The Dream™ was something thought up by marketing people on fifth avenue and sold to an extremely small subset of white wealthy suburban veterans returning from wwii and their boomer children. It wasn’t and still isn’t a thing for the vast majority of america but we allow this old bullshit to shape what people think murica is, hence why we get immigrants that come here thinking it’s white picket fences and bbqs when in reality it’s living in a tent and probably getting shot by some racist retiree hopped up on fox news.