The image the US has promoted about itself is that it is a beacon of prosperity and stability, for the rest of the world. That image only reflected reality from the late 1940s to the middle of the 1970s and was largely due to the social, economic and political reforms that were undertaken by Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s and early 1940s. Since the mid ’70s those reforms have been systematically undermined and overturned by the US financial and political elites, in a concerted effort to return to the pre-Rooseveltian era.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05/the-american-dream/