They've been so comfortable so long they honestly believed, "it can't happen here" right up until 25 miles of Steel Mills in the Mon Valley are nothing but empty fields and Detroit is now "Abandoned City" instead of "Motor City".
The American Dream has gone from making a decent living by having your own Mom & Pop business to Mom & Pop hoping they can both keep their part time jobs at Walmart and McDonalds. Mom & Pop no longer fantasize about setting enough aside for a little vacation, they fantasize about both getting having the same hours so they get a little time together at home.
How (sadly) true. Thank you for summing it up, even if it is painful.
Yes, but just think how awful it was in the old days when Dad worked a farm and Mom raised the kids and canned the vegetables from the garden and killed and dressed chickens raised on whatever they could find around the farm and the kids went to a school where they learned how to read, write, do sums and recite the constitution. Can you imagine how awful those days were? Children playing with toy guns and learning to shoot real ones at age ten or less, sixteen year old males taking on responsibilities like an adult, driving school buses and such. How horrible that was, I don’t know how I managed to survive it.