American Dream?

The American Dream... It is, ( or was?) the hope of so many ( my parents included.) Is it dead? lost to the past? no longer revelant? In this time of fear and disillusionment jaded, we wonder what lies ahead... Yet still, we dare to dream while me, I' m just weary as I think of my father's words some four decades past, " Among nations America is young like a child it will have growing pains, like an adolescent episodes of craziness." And I especially try hard to imagine- that if he said that then, were he alive, what would he say about 2020?