In a recent statement at the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Vivek Ramaswamy shed light on the current state of the American Dream, highlighting the systemic issues that are undermining its vitality. Ramaswamy emphasized that the American Dream, once a vibrant ideal, is now struggling to survive due to various factors such as government intervention, discrimination, and constraints on freedom of expression.

“What is the American dream? We call it a dream. I don’t want to be poetic here, but it feels like you wake up from a dream, then you forget what it was all about, and you remember the feeling of what it felt like. I think that’s the zone we’re in right now, and pretty soon you forget that too,” Ramaswamy said. He criticized the notion that the American Dream is thriving, stating, “The American Dream is alive and hanging on for life support. That’s where we are.”

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Ramaswamy defined the American Dream as the opportunity to achieve one’s maximum potential without hindrances imposed by government or societal biases. “The American Dream says not that we all have the same God given gifts, because we don’t. It’s an uncomfortable truth. But it doesn’t have to be uncomfortable. It’s actually perfectly natural that every person has different gifts. But the American Dream is built on the idea that no matter what your God given gifts are, and every one of us has our own unique, different god given gifts, you get to achieve the maximum of those gifts without any government or any system standing in your way, without your race or your gender or your sexuality standing in the way without anybody telling you you can’t achieve the maximum of your potential and that you know what you are also free to speak your mind at every step of the way.”

Ramaswamy acknowledged the challenges facing the American Dream today but expressed optimism about its revival. “Is that alive and well today? No, it’s not, but I believe it can be. I think that if my kids are in high school, I got a four year old at home, if my kids are in high school before we get this right, I think, I think we’re done. I think that’s the time horizon we’re working within. But I do believe that it is still possible to revive that American dream and to pass it on an even greater form.”

He concluded by emphasizing the shared commitment to the American Dream among Americans, regardless of their political affiliations or beliefs. “One of the things I love about people in this room is, regardless of your commitments to Bitcoin or Republicans or Democrats, it doesn’t matter. That’s something that I think most Americans still share in common. And we call it the American Dream for a reason, because it is distinctive to this country, and we ought to be proud of it.”