POLITICS+CULTURE

Americans No Longer Dream Of A Better Future

In which America needs to reject populism and embrace the elitism of intellectual superiority

David Todd McCarty
Ellemeno
Published in
9 min readMar 23
Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash

The American Dream is dead.

It doesn’t matter that it was always an illusion. American optimism was always tied to the idea of hope, hope that tomorrow…

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David Todd McCarty
Ellemeno

A cranky raconteur searching for hope and humor. Top Writer in Life, Writing, Culture, Social Media, Foodies, Science, Politics, History, Travel + more.