The popular belief in the American Dream is more than a red herring fallacy used to win political debates. It is a clever tool used to lure the penniless, foreign, and otherwise subordinate peoples into having faith in a life of wage slavery. The American Dream is a strange concept, bringing to mind visions of painted goddesses with large books holding telegraph wires. It is felt in the stirrings of gullible American's hearts during the …showed first 75 words of 675 total…

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