By John Lawrence
The American Dream is the ideological underpinning of the middle class. Now that the middle class is disappearing, it no longer makes sense as historically defined.
Thom Hartmann (Rebooting the American Dream) and Hedrick Smith (Who Stole the American Dream) have defined the American Dream as a good job at good wages plus benefits. They bemoan the fact that this has pretty much gone by the wayside in today's world.
Well, it's time to get over it because the conditions that gave rise to middle class prosperity in America from 1945 to 1980 are not coming back.
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