What would be the realization of the American dream?

@Joe, it's actually quite a natural desire made extreme in the US by simply missing much of the social focus for a shared desire to benefit society in general which produces a myth leading to the horrendous results of global multinationals and the mega financial empires manipulating governments and running the world economy into the ground now for all of us

Well put, Rob Dunn, but is it also perhaps values held and practiced by a smaller and smaller number of people?

Ljerka S, what drivel are you talking...? I removed your comment, as I have no time for racist crap in my thread...

Thanks to all the contributors who are keeping our 'dream question' alive...!!

The American Dream to me is achieving financial freedom to be able to have the kind of life that would make my family proud.Also to be able to educate other's on how to achieve financial Freedom.

To much Communism in mercer now and the dream has died with it

@Warren - US immigration always use the term aliens instead of foreigners to distinguish between US citizens, including landed immigrants, and those who are not.
@Joe - Another highly distinguished US intellectual is very critical of US foreign policy: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts - https://youtu.be/F5LHcALLK7E

Warren, you're sooo innocent... never heard the term aliens..? I suppose it is because the use of that word has been made illegal in the dry state of Jerry no-achievement Brown, called California, not Oregon and it is a well known term to describe a person non-grata, as per US policy makers, however, I agree with Warren about the numbers having gone down, since they've all gone to look for the maids you can find at the various Indian based escort agencies that now run apsense... lol

@Franto I have never heard that, maybe illegal immigrants but not aliens.

@Warren, consider people living in all parts of the Americas, North-,Central- and South-America as Americans, not just the folks in the US. In the states, they use the ridiculous expression "alians" for all non US citizens ... as if they were beings from outer space!

I count Canadians as Americans, but there are a lot fewer of us than there once was on APSense.

Hi Joe, did you watch the presentation Lawrence Wilkerson made in Canada last year? He is one of a very small number of Republicans who has a great moral standing in my eyes.

This thread is awesomely quiet... NO Americans here anymore?
Thanks for the comment Franto, as always....

I just watched a very interesting presentation by Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William Mary, and former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
He visited the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada on October 8, 2014 and gave a talk about the reality of the US today called "The Travails of Empire" ... it explains why the American Dream is further from ever becoming a reality in the US - h

Thank you, Awesome POWER duplication' to a real name and look more like the intelligent person that could research and come up with an excellent response to my question and less like 'al cheapo, the spammer'...

Freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

The American Dream is rooted in the Declaration of Independence, whic