The American Dream: reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

The American Dream has never been one of excess. It is the rightful believe that, given the opportunity, one will get ahead if they work hard.

The American Dream is in trouble.

Not because of the economic downturn, or the plight of some supposed permanent underclass. It's because a growing group political elite in this country are co-opting the concept in the name of social justice. Like George Orwell's Newspeak, they seek to change the meaning behind the words American Dream, and in doing so control the thinking of Americans.

The phrase The American Dream was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931,in his book The Epic of America - " that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."

The American Dream is an ideal that stresses egalitarianism, the belief in equal social, economic, and political opportunity for its citizens. It is not, nor has it ever been, a promise of entitlement.

"The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society." "...that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf."
-Barack Obama in an interview for Chicago Public Radio in 2001

The Social Justice movement believe that equal civil and social standing must make necessary economic equality. That the only way to make the so called disadvantaged whole, is to "spread the wealth around". This means not just equality of opportunity, but equality of results, regardless of input. They want you to believe that it's both moral and constitutional to achieve that equality through progressive taxation, income redistribution, or outright confiscation of property.

It is neither.

We the people must speak out loudly, and at every opportunity, or have our silence taken for consent.