Poll Finds 70% Say the American Dream Is Dead — And That’s Just the Beginning of America’s Financial Freefall

The American Dream: Burned and Buried Once upon a time, the American Dream meant that if you worked hard, played fair, and kept your nose clean, you’d earn a better life for yourself and your children. But that ideal has been systematically murdered—drowned under student debt, priced out by inflated housing, and suffocated by stagnant wages and a devalued dollar. Today, only 25% of Americans believe they have any realistic chance of improving their standard of living. That's a record low—lower than during the Savings & Loan crisis, lower than the Dot-Com bust, and lower than in the ashes of the 2008 collapse. The media calls it “economic pessimism.” Let’s call it what it is: disillusionment with a system rigged…