Recently I've been pointing out the bullshit of "The American Dream" - including HERE - and now we see the new Republican plan is to use it as a cudgel against "the others":
“The Republican Party is using it as a dog whistle,” said Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. “They are saying here is the potential of what you can have, if we can exclude others from ‘stealing it’ from you.”
Republicans dispute that their references to “the American dream” promote exclusion and say they are using the phrase the same way politicians have used it for decades — to signal hope and opportunity. “I think the left is far more pessimistic than Republicans are about the American dream,” said Representative Yvette Herrell, a New Mexico Republican who is Cherokee and the third Native American woman ever elected to Congress.
But this latest iteration of the dream has become a rhetorical catchall for Republicans' policy positions.
But as I've been saying, rich people have been waving around the "American Dream" bullshit for so long now that of course nobody remembers it was bullshit all along. This is just another variant of their bullshit, and of course on cue millions of Americans will fall for it.
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