The American Dream Is No Longer Possible….

[PoliticalChic]

…or is it?



1.Once you convince people that they can't possibly make it, that the cards are stacked against them.....that there really is no success possible....
...after all

....and that the individualism that this nation was built on has been supplanted by collectivism, socialism, Bolshevism.....

..... you can follow it with the claim that government can give you what you cannot earn any longer: success, prosperity, all of your wishes. And there are penalties for not belonging...

2. Under Marx and other pretenders, the public had to be convinced that the new ‘king,’ big government, was benevolent, and would take care of their every want and need…from cradle to grave. Tocqueville described this 2 centuries ago:

“an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.”



3. An immense problem for every Leftist philosophy is that it lacks an understanding of human nature. People want to accomplish, to earn on their own, not simply be taken care of.

“Earned success is the secret to meaningful happiness. The government can improve your net worth with a check, but it cannot improve your self-worth.”
Jonah Goldberg




4. The Left senses this, and to soften the blow, promises to alter human nature.

Leon Trotsky wrote in his Literature and Revolution, on the ability to alter human nature. Hillary Clinton agreed....

"The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will"
New Soviet man - Wikipedia


5. Hillary was a devotee....
In 1969, Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that “ for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible….We’re not interested in social reconstruction; it’s human reconstruction.”
-http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html




Of course, that is simply a lie. They pretend to be God, but they aren’t.

“Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.” --Thucydides

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. No, we don't need government to coddle and cosset us. We need those God-given abilities put to use.

Remember the lessons children were taught before "Heather Has Two Mommies" replaced

The Hare & the Tortoise​

This is what made for success, and the American Dream:

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

It has never been a secret as how to be successful, to attain the American dream. And, no…it isn’t via government entitlements and stimulus checks.

 

[Moonglow]

I am living the American Dream right now, sorry you missed out.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

…or is it?



1.Once you convince people that they can't possibly make it, that the cards are stacked against them.....that there really is no success possible....
...after all View attachment 624402

....and that the individualism that this nation was built on has been supplanted by collectivism, socialism, Bolshevism.....

..... you can follow it with the claim that government can give you what you cannot earn any longer: success, prosperity, all of your wishes. And there are penalties for not belonging...

View attachment 624410



2. Under Marx and other pretenders, the public had to be convinced that the new ‘king,’ big government, was benevolent, and would take care of their every want and need…from cradle to grave. Tocqueville described this 2 centuries ago:

“an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.”



3. An immense problem for every Leftist philosophy is that it lacks an understanding of human nature. People want to accomplish, to earn on their own, not simply be taken care of.

“Earned success is the secret to meaningful happiness. The government can improve your net worth with a check, but it cannot improve your self-worth.”
Jonah Goldberg




4. The Left senses this, and to soften the blow, promises to alter human nature.

Leon Trotsky wrote in his Literature and Revolution, on the ability to alter human nature. Hillary Clinton agreed....

"The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will"
New Soviet man - Wikipedia


5. Hillary was a devotee....
In 1969, Hillary Rodham gave the student commencement address at Wellesley in which she said that “ for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible….We’re not interested in social reconstruction; it’s human reconstruction.”
-http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html




Of course, that is simply a lie. They pretend to be God, but they aren’t.

“Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.” --Thucydides

most of us with a brain know that's all bullshit. The American dream is alive and well.

It begs the question, why would they have an interest in making us believe that the deck is constantly stacked against us?

It's their pathway to power.

The REAL Big Lie is the big commie lie.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. The Left has been far more interested in fighting material inequality than tyranny, which is why Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, etc., tend to have the support of Leftists around the world.

But it is capitalism that is the basis of the American Dream, and freedom is a necessary corollary.

In the free market, every man, woman and child is scheming to find a better way to make a product or service that will make a fortune!

Democrats/Progressives are fiercely opposed to it….outside of for themselves (Clintons, Bidens…)




8. “progressive reform.” means rounding up all those who are beneath the average in prosperity or acceptability in mainstream-majority society, or if not, at least highly dissatisfied with the lot of those who are, and mobilizing them as a democratic majority to impose transfers of wealth and status from those who have earned or inherited it to the less fortunate or successful. ... a constant process of evaluating where the electoral majorities are, pitching to them as victims in the name of a benign state, and representing to those who pay for these transfers that it is their Christian and social duty and that they should rejoice in their opportunity to better the quality and stability of American life and society.

In Mrs. Clinton’s America, spiritual inspiration exists to pursue redistributive materialism, all “progress” apart from a little doughty self-help is the result of state intervention, the state has a practically unlimited right and duty to correct meritocratic as well as inherited or exploitive socioeconomic imbalances, and the U.S. Democratic party must be a secular church militant where those who oppose abortions (about half the American public) are, along with many other large groups, unwelcome.

This isn’t really Christianity or democracy; it easily slips into rank acquisition of votes with the money of part of the electorate in a cynical and corrupt manner...
Mrs. Clinton Convicts Herself <br>In Stunning Display of Rage <br>At What Happened in 2016



Clearly, the American Dream is very different from the Democrat Plot.

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. But enough philosophy….now for the nuts and bolts process that prove that the American Dream is attainable.



Some time ago I read Ehrenreich’s polemic as to how the world is slanted against working folks, and only government (read Democrats) can help anyone to even barely survive.

Only Democrats can save America!!!!!!!!

The Liberal paradigm.



This is what Amazon writes about the book:

"This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor.
A successful author, Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in a blue-collar America obsessed with welfare "reform". Her first job is waitressing, which pulls in a measly $2.43 an hour plus tips. She moves around the country, trying her hand as a maid, a nursing home assistant, and a Wal-Mart salesperson. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers take multiple thankless jobs just to keep a roof overhead.

Often humorous and always illuminating, Nickel and Dimed is a remarkable expose of the ugly flip side of the American dream."



In the next post.....I'll utterly destroy that piece of Liberal propaganda and prove the continued existence of the American Dream.

 

[Chillicothe]

This is what Amazon writes about the book:
"This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller

I read 'Nickel & Dime' years ago.
It is a terrific read.
I highly recommend it today......and have been recommending it for years.
It informed me.
I never had to scratch the way this woman scratched.
So I know I was...and am...blessed. What I have was never given to me .... I had to work for it; however, after university (and the collection of crappy jobs in those student years).....after that I earned a good buck for the times I was in at the time.
So the author's experience was informative. Made me a bit more aware of how I was forunate....good parents, stable home, solid education, and the installation of my parent's work ethic.

Read Nickel & Dime. It will make you a better American.
Betcha.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I read 'Nickel & Dime' years ago.
It is a terrific read.
I highly recommend it today......and have been recommending it for years.
It informed me.
I never had to scratch the way this woman scratched.
So I know I was...and am...blessed. What I have was never given to me .... I had to work for it; however, after university (and the collection of crappy jobs in those student years).....after that I earned a good buck for the times I was in at the time.
So the author's experience was informative. Made me a bit more aware of how I was forunate....good parents, stable home, solid education, and the installation of my parent's work ethic.

Read Nickel & Dime. It will make you a better American.
Betcha.

You are exactly what I had in mind when I composed this essat: the easily led.

The book was propaganda for the socialists, Democrats, Bolsheviks......and one lie after another.


The should have done what I did.....and picked up a book which reveals the very opposite.



I'll provide that for you in a few minutes and you may begin to discern how you have been lied to....and vote for this:
The Democrat Party is now running on full-blown anti-white racism,

socialism,

infanticide,

opposition to free speech,

standing with criminals and felons rather than law-abiding citizens

substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry,

support for rioters, arsonists, murderers, and anarchists,

accepting payment from Communist China for future considerations,

and anti-Semitism… the knuckle-dragging, atavistic pagan party.



No real American votes for this.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I read 'Nickel & Dime' years ago.
It is a terrific read.
I highly recommend it today......and have been recommending it for years.
It informed me.
I never had to scratch the way this woman scratched.
So I know I was...and am...blessed. What I have was never given to me .... I had to work for it; however, after university (and the collection of crappy jobs in those student years).....after that I earned a good buck for the times I was in at the time.
So the author's experience was informative. Made me a bit more aware of how I was forunate....good parents, stable home, solid education, and the installation of my parent's work ethic.

Read Nickel & Dime. It will make you a better American.
Betcha.

You are exactly the sort I thought of when I composed this essay.....the easily led.

I read it, saw the flaws, and immedialtly read a book that provided the opposite ....the truth.

I will provide that book and that truth for you in a few minutes.



If you were wiser, and didn't fall for the propaganda, you would not be voting for this:
The Democrat Party is now running on full-blown anti-white racism,

socialism,

infanticide,

opposition to free speech,

standing with criminals and felons rather than law-abiding citizens

substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry,

support for rioters, arsonists, murderers, and anarchists,

accepting payment from Communist China for future considerations,

and anti-Semitism… the knuckle-dragging, atavistic pagan party.



No real American would vote for this.




Stay tuned....y'hear!

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. A young man, Adam Shepard, found Ehrenreich's book so depressing, he went out to see if it was correct. He proved the American Dream was alive and well….and he wrote a book about it.

1. For a real-world perspective on the American ethic, find the Alan Shepard book, “Scratch Beginnings, in which the author recounts his own social experiment, at age 24, starting out at the lowest rung of the economic ladder. The question: could he conquer poverty in one year at his best efforts?
2. He left his home with nothing but a tarp, sleeping bag, an empty gym bag, the clothes on his back, and $25. The went to Charleston, South Carolina…a city where he had never been before, and where he knew nobody. He didn’t use his college education as a resume, nor any family or other contacts.
3. The first night he finds the Crisis Ministries homeless shelter, and, next morning, begins working odd jobs. Within a few weeks, he gets a regular job with a moving company. He moonlights on weekends to make extra money.
4. He makes friends and contacts, and these help him to find jobs and housing…Within five months, he gets a raise from the moving company to $10/ hour. And another, to $11/hour in less than nine months.
5. Progress was retarded by breaking his foot on the job, yet by three months he was able to move out of the homeless shelter and rent a room in a large house in an upscale part of town. (It was owned by a friend he met while working a second job on weekends.) Then, just a month later, he moved into a two-bedroom duplex with the cousin of one of his co-workers. It was a bit rundown, so the two of them spent a week-end making it like new. (His share was $325 because he took the master bedroom.)
6. After just ten months he was living in his own furnished apartment, with his own car, and he had $5,300 in savings.
   1. The book also tells of other low-income people he met, and how they, also, would like a safety net second to their own work,

Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream [Paperback]

Adam W. Shepard (Author)

No.....the system is not slanted against the worker, and, no.....Ehrenreich will not make you a better American: It will make you one more serf to the Socialists.

 

[Chillicothe]

Despite PC's critique of the non-fiction book 'Nickel & Dimed'..... I would recommend it to all.
It can be tough out there.
Tough for those who don't start out with some of society's step-ups.
This book gives one a peek into that world of low-pay hard-work while trying to get an apartment, a car, insurance, etc.
It gave me a whole new perspective on those immigrant laborers who come here to America.....not to steal your scooter, but to have a better life for their family than they had in Honduras or Guatemala......where they had to work just as hard, but for even less money, and under more onerous conditions. They come here for the American dream.....and many many of them achieve their version of the American dream.
There is a reason this book was on the best-seller list for years.
If non-fiction books are in your wheelhouse.....this one is a good one.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Despite PC's critique of the non-fiction book 'Nickel & Dimed'..... I would recommend it to all.
It can be tough out there.
Tough for those who don't start out with some of society's step-ups.
This book gives one a peek into that world of low-pay hard-work while trying to get an apartment, a car, insurance, etc.
It gave me a whole new perspective on those immigrant laborers who come here to America.....not to steal you scooter, but to have a better life for their family than they had in Honduras or Guatemala......where they had to work just as hard, but for even less money, and under more onerous conditions.
There is a reason this book was on the best-seller list for years.
If non-fiction books are in your wheelhouse.....this one is a good one.

Absolutely!!!

But then read the truth.....Adam Shepard's book.


BTW.....I am an immigrant, a minority, and we came here with nothing.


Now....my sis and I are both Ivy grads, and living well.


Ehrenreich is simply a propagandist and you are one of the simpletons who buy the propaganda.





Nor are you a real American, as I am.
Let me explain why:

The Constitution was a distillation of the views of Madison, Jefferson and Franklin. Progressivism is from the views of Rousseau, Hegel and Marx.

Now, let's quote 'progressives,' also known as totalitarians.


a. The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest” (Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).



b. The attitude of the FDR government can be seen in these words of A.B. “Happy” Chandler, a former Kentucky governor: “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”

From a speech delivered on the Senate floor

May 14, 1943 Happy Chandler's dangerous statism - The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions



c. Jim Cramer, one of the Left's apparatchiks, say what Democrats believe, encourage.....but blames it on the other side.

“government has a right to force you to obey and has always exercised it especially under GOP”



Anyone think to question what the GOP has forced any to obey about?



Masks?



Injections?



Taxation?



See what I mean about the Left/Progressives lying about everything?



The Democrats are the European Party, the party of Obey.

We’re the other side, the personal liberty, individualism, the right to make personal decisions.

 

[alang1216]

1.Once you convince people that they can't possibly make it, that the cards are stacked against them.....that there really is no success possible....
...after all View attachment 624402

Taking a quote out of context is the same as lying and Obama was 100% accurate when he said this.

....and that the individualism that this nation was built on has been supplanted by collectivism, socialism, Bolshevism.....

Your ideology has clouded your view of history. Who were these 'individuals' that built the nation?

 

[PoliticalChic]

11. "Scratch Beginnings: An interview with Adam Shepard​

Written by J.D. ROTH

|Published: 18 February 2008
I just finished reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America for the third time. In this book, the author chronicles three one-month stints working as one of the American poor. Her goal is to demonstrate that it's difficult to succeed as a waitress, or a maid, or a Wal-Mart employee.

This is a book that I wanted to like — I sympathize with the author's motives — but what could have been an interesting project (and an interesting book) is instead a bizarre Marxist screed about class warfare. Ehrenreich enters her experiment with the end in mind — failure — and she seems to do everything she can to make this end come to fruition.

Nickel and Dimed could have been so much more. I wanted to hear about the people Ehrenreich worked with, wanted to hear their backgrounds and stories and dreams, but very little of that comes through in the book. Instead, we learn about all the little ways in which Ehrenreich sabotages any chance at success.

Scratch Beginnings​

Though Nickel and Dimed has its fans, I'm not the only one who thinks Ehrenreich's approach was flawed. A young man named Adam Shepard recently published a book called Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream that chronicles his own time spent living and working the low-wage lifestyle.

...started from scratch in Charleston, South Carolina, with $25 and the clothes on his back. He lived in a homeless shelter while looking for work. His goal was to start with nothing and, within a year, work hard enough to save $2500, buy a car, and to live in a furnished apartment.

It wasn't easy, but Shepard succeeded. In ten months, he had his car, he had his furnished apartment, and he hadn't just saved $2500 — he'd saved twice that. Was he lucky? Did he get good breaks because he's a young white male? Probably. But I think much of his success also came from setting goals and working toward them."

Scratch Beginnings: An interview with Adam Shepard

I'm not some neo-con crusader who believes that the poor deserve what they get. I'm a middle-of-the-road kind of guy who leans left on issues of poverty.

www.getrichslowly.org

 

[PoliticalChic]

12. "Is it really that easy? You were able to do this because you had a goal. What was the situation like for those people you worked and lived with? Did they have goals? Did they save?

Adam

Of course it's easy for me to say it was easy. I had a goal. I was out to prove a point. I had the mentality and I knew what I had to do to get the results I wanted.

But what surprised me most, and what makes my story so fascinating, is that so many people around me were doing the same thing. It was most prevalent in the shelter (where some people had spent a lifetime learning from their mistakes), but it was just as prevalent outside of the shelter with guys like Derrick Hale, who emerges as the hero of my experience in Charleston.

Derrick was a guy I was working with at the moving company. He had come from rural Kingstree, SC, and he truly knew what poverty was like having grown up in a world of bologna and pickle sandwiches and maybe the lights will turn on, maybe not. And there he was in Charleston, saving his money just like I was. Actually, that's cocky of me to say, since I was learning so many lessons from him.

Derrick was unique in that not only did he have a goal, but he had a vision for achieving that goal. There's a monumental difference, and I really learned that throughout the course of my time in Charleston. Everybody knows what they want (nice house, car, vacation money, etc.) and many people know what can get in the way of achieving those goals (see poor spending habits above). But! Some people really struggle with the discipline of their vision. Derrick wanted a house, and near the end of my time in Charleston, he moved into a brand new 3-bedroom, two-story house, with a patio and a fenced in yard for his daughter and dog to play. He was 25 and he worked as a mover, but he knew how to handle his money.

So, is it realistic to set goals and save your money and make worthy investments? Of course it is! Are people doing it? Of course they are, just as there are people that are squandering their money to bad habits."
Ibid.




Bottom line: Don't ever believe what Democrats tell you....



.....and certainly never base your life plans on them.

 

[initforme]

Bottom line? Get educated beyond high school in a needed degree. Always be on theookout for opportunities and ensure your employer knows you are wanting to improve. Good employees look to get out asap. 2 weeks notice is no longer applicable. You have ALL the power.

 

[bodecea]

I am living the American Dream right now, sorry you missed out.

Same here.....it's sad that a failed failure is blaming others for her fails.

 

[Unkotare]

... 2 weeks notice is no longer applicable. ....

Yes it is, for people of any character.

 

[initforme]

Disagree. It's not.

 

[Unkotare]

For people of any character. Not everyone has any.