The Dream of Upward Mobility

Do we still have, as Cullen puts it, a dream of Upward Mobility? Or a possibility of reaching this eventual point of success in America? I really think we do, and this idea or argument is a crux of the political battles now a days. There seems to be a constant battle between the middle class and the higher class. There is no longer slavery, but a divide has yet come about on the importance of the Union and the government in individual affairs. I find the reading very fitting for presidents day, and I really enjoyed the commentary on Jackson and Lincoln especially. America has been built by the mysticism of self made men.