Strongly disagree. My brothers and I are all living the typical American Dream, close family, comfortable retirement and a house with two cars. We got it all by following the rules and we were raised in a military family where duty, honor and country was the norm.
I never lived CONUS until I was 16, we lived overseas (NATO countries) all my life until then. I enlisted when I was 20 and got to see the other hemisphere.
This is still a great country. People who have never left the spare bedroom in their mother's house have no idea how good it is.
I am just a naturalized American, but living the American dream, however there are many Americans who are not. And I especially empathize with those in metals & manufacturing whose middle class jobs were exported to China by elites in both parties.