[Mr. Jeeves]

The Boston Globe's version of the American Dream translates to "middle class lifestyles for working class intellects/skill-sets" - something that was briefly possible in the wake of WWII with the rise of American industry, but was mistakenly accepted as the new norm (and as their just due) by unions and New Deal leftists. Now the Left is willing to spend any amount of government money necessary to get back to those halcyon days...when the only thing likely to create them again would be for the USA to fight and win WWIII (or WWIV, if you prefer). Redistributing wealth to accomplish those goals has already proven to be a total failure over the last forty years.

[Steve_Seattle]

"The Boston Globe's version of the American Dream translates to "middle class lifestyles for working class intellects/skill-sets" . . . "

I don't think they really want this; it is just rhetoric. What they want is not 1950s-style lifestyles for the masses, but to put everyone into "affordable" apartments, take away their cars, and give them free health care to shut them up. Meawhile, the liberal elites will vacation at Martha's Vineyard.