Serf's up!

Digby had a nice piece in her part-time gig at Salon this week discussing how Americans view the so-called American Dream.  Seems most of us (58%) don't believe the hype anymore, and that number is inflated by the fact that 55% of republicans (versus 32% of Democrats) still believe in it.

Go figure.

She goes on to point out that Democrats and republicans have different ideas as to what constitutes the American Dream.  Democrats tend to see it as as middle class dream (house, kids in college, retirement security) and republicans tend to see it as becoming filthy rich.  In a nutshell, the wealthy basically tell all of us that it's good for us that they're rich, without a shred of evidence to support it, and that their being rich is what makes America great, again, all evidence to the contrary, and fucking republicans believe them.

All of which probably explains why the rest of us basically subsidize the South--while they're lolling around waiting for the American Dream to magically make them America's next millionaire, we're working our asses off to pay their bills.

And the wealthy are nowhere in sight.

Peace,
emaycee