"Bye, Bye The American Dream. All you are now is a
Republican scheme"
The American Dream was real for me. My father died of polio
when I was seven. My mother and her three sons lived on Social Security which
back then even paid for college. I always had a job and a scholarship. I ended up with a PhD and an
assistant professorship at Syracuse University.
That was the old story. I follow the lives of my students
and it doesn't happen today. The 1% get all the money, and the rest are
crawling around for petty change. America stopped being a country with upward
mobility. It's much more real in Canada and parts of Europe. And the powers
that be in this country don't care.
If you inherit all your money like Trump then people like my
students don't even register in your world. You fill your cabinet with
billionaires and take away the protections created for poor Americans who needed
to be aware if they're being cheated.
I could've ended up pumping gas in Sandy Creek New York.
Instead I got to be a university vice president. It's a nice story, but it
couldn't happen today. Rich people run our country to reward themselves.
America was once a great place to which people wanted to immigrate. Now the
number one country people dream of moving to is New Zealand. Chinese believe
they or their children won't get shot if they move to New Zealand. They have
no such expectation about America.
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