America has changed. Not in transition, no longer wavering, but clearly and decisively. A nation who once prided herself on individual exceptionalism has adapted the mantel of mediocrity and found it acceptable. We are becoming a nation where success, education, personal responsibility and individual achievement are viewed with contempt and envy. We have become a nation who mirrors the petty meanness of the last man standing Reality TV shows we have become so addicted to. There was once a time, still in recent memory perhaps, where most Americans aspired to be ‘rich’, believed in the American dream to do so, admired their parents’ generation, who had invested in them the same work ethic of personal success they had toiled for … Read More »