The American dream is dead for many. Social democracy can bring it back | Bhaskar Sunkara

We can't pretend things are going great in the US. But we also must reject the pessimism that says things must stay like this

I love the United States. My parents came here from Trinidad and Tobago the year before I was born, and they and my four siblings eventually became citizens. My parents struggled for many years to get established here, but it has offered us everything - security, belonging, opportunity.

Yet for many Americans, particularly those who have been in this country for generations building the foundations of American prosperity, the American dream is not alive and well.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, founding editor of Jacobin and author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequalities