When did Americans stop believing in the dream of a better country?

[Smokster]

39. Interesting

Dreams are not reality. Somewhere along the line a lot of people got the idea - by way of dreaming - that capitalism "can be made fair." It can't because that's not how it works. One only has to look at the game of Monopoly to understand that. One form of oppression getting replaced by another doesn't get much for the masses in the long run. Try bringing the "Rights Of Man" and "Freedom and Liberty" into the economic sphere of capitalist society and see how that works out. It won't be allowed. Both the French and American revolutions replaced one form of oppression with another. Do revolutions that result in authoritarian and totalitarian forms of statist communism and socialism solve that ? That's not the answer either, as history shows. Again, it's replacing one form of oppression with other. As long as ruling classes and class distinctions exist there will never be "Freedom, Liberty, and Justice" for all. Political proclamations about "the middle class" originate from the tongues of the ruling classes. To have a middle class means there must be a ruling class and a lower class. That is the essence of master and slave human social relations. I also have unrealistic dreams. Dreams of a society free from the chains of master and slave social relations in every form.