Some political phrases you're tired of hearing

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3. "Hardworking Americans"

and the inability to reference the American dream without stressing "working hard" above all else.

There is, or should be, so much more to life than "working hard."

The phrase never bothered me before I recognized the relentless push by the oligarchy to extend working hours and cut benefits and leave. We are increasingly trained, propagandized, and forced by debt and circumstance to live our lives as rats in a wheel now, producing for their profit, at the expense of family, friends, and other pursuits...and it is celebrated as a virtue.