Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker
In the U.S., we love a good Horatio Alger story, in which a person who starts out w/ very little, applies hard work & ambition & becomes a success. In real life, American elites abhor a try-hard as much as any European aristocrat might. https://t.co/Jd5mQPo57y — PolitiTweet.org
