This article states that the American dream is that in America, anything is possible with hard work. But, this article says that the American Dream is even more achievable than it was in the past. Sandy Miller, the author of this article, says that many previous obstacles people may have faced have been removed by using social media. She says its all about getting enough followers or viewers to jump-start your blog or YouTube channel, whatever it may be. She ends it saying: "don’t be so quick to give up on those childhood dreams-- you might be able to use social media to make them a reality".
This article seems to have a more negative spin than the previous. Michael Bloomberg (author) says that 70 percent of students in the most competitive colleges come from families with incomes in the top 25 percent. So what does this mean for the American Dream? He seems to say in this article that the version of the American Dream that states that anyone can do anything, is false because of economic barriers some people face. But, he hopes that Bloomberg Philathropies can increase the percent of low and moderate income students that go to top colleges.
On this American public radio site, a series is dedicated to defining the American Dream. The old American Dream is defined as happiness, freedom, and achieving a better life by working hard. Kate Ellis and Ellen Guettler say that now, the dream has become more materialistic and focused on possessions, rather than happiness. They say that consumerism in the American Dream became apparent when Americans were forced to go without material possessions during the Great Depression. Between the stock market and the suburbs, American consumerism grew.
Seth Holmes writes about how some people in Mexico actually do not want to come to America. This may be shocking to some Americans, because as Holmes writes "most of us assume the American Dream is universal". He lived in Mexico for years, interviewing the local people there about the American Dream. The people he met want to live, work, and grow old in Mexico, with no desire to move to America. They want to continue to live with their families and friends.
For as long as we are pumped to our eyelids with fear and willing to make the devil’s trade (liberty for security) we will continue to be truly damned. Under half-truths, covered in a veil of fear, we are stripped of our God-given rights, while the rich get richer, and we, the working class, continue to burden the weight of the leeches of society. Taxed into poverty. The middle class slaves are now a minority vote in what is a truly corrupted system. An American tragedy is unfolding before us.