The American Dream led to the US becoming the greatest nation on earth. The place where people in poverty have the freedom and opportunity to rise above that, and become as great as they choose to be.
A place where individuals can own property, and businesses without the threat of the government deciding on a whim to simply take them away.
A place where people are free to worship God any way they choose... freely, publicly, without persecution.
A place where the people get to choose who governs them.
There are so many facets to the Dream, that it would take a book to discuss them....
What we are seeing now, in our nation, is the perversion of the Dream.... things that have happened since the 1950's in this nation have undermined and changed the Dream from what it was meant to be. That needs to be corrected.
But this "nightmare" of a nation is still the nation that oppressed people from all over the world are DYING to get to. Why do other nations not have the flood of illegals trying to get in? Or the flood of LEGALS trying to get in?
Our nation is not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but from what I've experienced in visiting other nations... "first world" nations, I still would not live anywhere else, at least not by choice.
And that is not a lack of humility speaking... that is simply looking at facts.