I suppose the saddest part of the1960's Era of freedom movements and related protests against the in-place system of oppression, was that it ended. Today though, we again are awakening albeit forcefully, to the destructive nature of the same mechanisms designed to put the few before the many. Hard work is rewarded in the New American Way; with dreams trampled to dust while fear of a growing police state keeps those who would other wise feel free to speak out against a government which no longer represents us, silent.
All I hope for in this life, at this stage in mine own, is to someday be able to sit next to my own son or daughter and tell them what my father once told me. The new American Dream is one where we dream or reminisce of a time when we could speak out or has it become the American Nightmare where we face the impending destruction of our collective freedom and have only hard times to look forward to. Given today's situation of quickly degrading social structures and ever increasing caste systemics, I can't help but feel that if I said the same words to my children that my Father once said to me of hard work rewarding them with success, I would be lying.
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