Is the American dream lost??

We as Americans like to beleive that we live in a state of government described as a Democracy, depicted as rule of the people by the people. For years upon years this has been the Dogmatic social doctorine that has layed the path upon which many Americans now walk. It is the statement that we are all equally represented under the government because that is what our founding fathers established in our beautifully scripted Constitution. Such was thought to be the basis of Democracy and that is what the American Dream was expected to pursue.

However, I will go out of my liberty right here and state that the American Dream existed once in our lives but far before any one of us have had the opportunity to reap its glory. The American Dream in my mind only existed in the very roots of our country with the Framers of the country as the true followers of the dream. They penned that America ought to be a Republic and not a Democracy because Democracy would one day birth the same style of government they had once feared, a monarchy in which one political group would control the minorities (which is exactly as it is in america now). A Republic is how America was supposed to be described because it projects the Minor voice with the Major.

So that is why I believe the American Dream is lost. With our absolutely outstanding regime in office right now, every action we conduct as a country is in the name of Democracy, and the latter to which we like to believe. We as americans like the cozy feeling of liberty that we are garunteed by the government to realize that this country is run by a single political group with the absence of the minorities best interest(here i dont mean ethnicity or sex, but I mean as the economical minority.) As long as we are run by "Democracy", The American Dream will cease to exist. It is that simple...

I think the term was first used in a book called "The Epic of Americas" by James Adam, and it talked about everyones lives being better/richer and having success based off of ability/achievement. It referred to not simply the idea of being wealthier but rather a social order in which each man can achieve that success regardless of which family they were born under. Basically it was a rip on the English system of wealth. Today, I think that the common element between the original American dream and the present day American dream is.. wealth, and wealth alone. As cynical as this may sound, whereas the American dream was a thought to have all of society succeed regardless of their background, now its a more capitalist based selfish idea of personal success. The common "lets all succeed together regardless of who we're born as" may very well have turned into a common "I want to succeed and if you can't keep up then you arent capable enough." Hence the basis of both dreams are consistant- wealth and capability rather than being born in wealth, but the idealistic unity aspect is rather lost.

Among nations comparable to United States wealth, America is second to last in intergenerational economic mobility.