I would go as far to say that the "American Dream" was still-born. TBH, let's face it: the American Experiment as a whole is a failure. Firstly, the country started off on the wrong foot: hypocritical racist physiocrats with confederalism at any cost versus racist crypto-monarchist Hamiltonians, the lone voice of reason Thomas Paine drowned out and labelled a fool. The America of today is the reaping of what was sown. Best to just burn the ground and plant afresh...