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American Dream is back. President Donald Trump says so. Once again
every American, regardless of background, race, gender or education,
can, through sheer hard work, make it to the very top and become
rich. <br>Did the idea of the America Dream, in which nothing is
impossible as long as you work hard, evolve with the 'founding
fathers' of the nation? Is it intrinsic to the country's identity?
<br>Professor Sarah Churchwell argues that the American Dream is much
younger than we realise, and it was born as a response to the
'Roaring Twenties' and the devastating stock market crash of 1929,
and Depression that followed. <br>She uses history, literature and
music to explore the original meaning of The American Dream - which
was an appeal for much more modest dreams of a better life for all,
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 April 2017 at 15:50, Lawrence Upton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:uptonlawrence@gmail.com" target="_blank">uptonlawrence@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I agree with you, Alan... I think. Though....<br></div>I was talking about this on Saturday with a good friend. I think that we have both got a little used to the situation and now were panicking a little that if Trump is removed (not necessarily a euphemism) then we'd have, not a new election, but President Pence -- who appears not to be stuck in a tantrum at a mental age of maybe 7 even if he does, as my friend reports she heard, see women as a risky temptation even across a lunch table so that he has vowed only ever to have lunch with his wife from now on. (Somehow she and I managed to part from our lunch meeting without commiting carnal sins)<br></div>War is a real possibility. Yes. You may have heard that one of our ex Prime Ministers, M Howard, assuring us that our present PM would be able to defend Gibralter just as Margaret Thatcher defended the Falklands from "another Spanish-speaking country". The government hasn't even discussed its secession from EU and they're talking about shooting at foreigners.<br></div>I do see the present USA situation hides what T might be up to. That's contained in my reference to D Adams, I think; certainly it is from the p.o.v. of Trump voters. I don't quite know what to do about it!<br></div>There was a well-structured radio programme on BBC over the weekend on the phrase "The American dream". I'll get a reference to that and post it.<br><br></div>L<br><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 April 2017 at 15:25, Alan Sondheim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sondheim@panix.com" target="_blank">sondheim@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Lawrence Upton wrote:<br>
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"T. isn't the problem, so much as the neoliberal/corporate/diplomati<wbr>c<br>
structure that creates this kind of brutal power base in the first place."<br>
A line in one of Douglas Adams novels comes to mind to the effect that the<br>
politician we see is there to distract us from seeing where the power is<br>
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Agreed! But the problem is the clumsiness of Trump. I've long felt that it would be better to have a right-winger like Spence in power, because you can fight someone with a defined position; with Trump, it's one micro- disaster after another - the news here is full of this stuff - and first, it hides whatever he might be up to; and second, one of those disasters could end up being the stuff that real war is made of.<br>
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