The American Dream A Fallacy Essay

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The American Dream, a broken fallacy or a reality? Some will argue that the dream is just that, a dream, something seemingly so tangible yet out of reach. Then it is argued the dream is either real or dead, or real and achievable by all. Contrary to the optimistic outlook possibly many share the dream is sadly dead. And here’s why such a statement is not far from truth at all. Without further buzzling within the ideals of the American dream and how it has come to fall over the many years of this countries existence, lets begin. Despite the countless virtues shared by Americans and the history of the United States, the forefathers of this country failed to take into account the mortality of the dream, that it is subject to time such as anything else in life. The middle class is dwindling, the population is doubling, the golden age we had hoped to live in is slowly becoming a broken dream. It’s becoming harder to achieve even the most trivial of goals, according to an article on the Business Insider which labels many facts …show more content…

The notion that people can still achieve it is just fluffy false advertising that is leading people to instability. But still, people such as Dustin Dwyer preaches on his article on the Michigan Radio, “One of the key findings is that a pretty big majority - 84 percent of Americans - earn more money than their parents” (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org). While this might be true, the cost of which to achieve such a level is too much to compensate for, in the end most Americans end up with student loans or are dragged into other debt holes in which they will spend years possibly even more trying to climb out of. So while the prospect might seem optimistic, the reality is a grim hurdle in which many people never