The Byways of Fear and Prosperity

We were once the ones who taught anxious Europeans,  plagued by endless wars and a seemingly intractable system of class privilege, to live without fear. Now we live and sell the fear and they remind us through their daily comportment (don't believe what the Wall Street Journal says, and the the rest of the US press regularly parrots about the malaise-inducing unsustainability of the European social model) of what we-or at least a good chunk of our  white population- once had. Whether the US elites and their media acolytes are ready to admit it or not,  social mobility, and with it the enjoyment of middle class life, in Europe is demonstrably superior to that which exists today in the US. Not a very edifying thought when we consider the centrality of the American Dream to the maintenance of social cohesion in the imperium. Maybe that's why the US media works so hard to underplay an denigrate the the very real achievements of today's Europe.