California: the Decline of the American Dream

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Published 2024-03-30
Los Angeles, where Hollywood and its glitter shine, attracts tourists from all over the world. But behind the glittering facade, it's another image of the golden state,. Homelessness, poverty, unemployment, California is far from the American dream.

Director: Julien Hamelin

All Comments (21)
  • @Bonsignore4U
    They should put the year the videos were produced
  • When you’re half way through a documentary and you realize it’s 15 years old 😂
  • @silveriver9
    "That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin
  • The fact that we get free documentaries from Best Documentary on YouTube is priceless; keeping the education and knowledge alive. 👍👍👍
  • @paultrigger3798
    California is blessed with having the combination of the best geographic location, weather, and resources on the planet yet it's still somehow ruined by the people who inhabit it.
  • @michaelscott6390
    Am i right in thinking this is an old documentary? Things were bad then but a WHOLE lot worse now.
  • @aaronsmith593
    California is too expensive. Moving out is the best decision ever.
  • Man this didn't age well. Californians would give anything to have the state they had during Arnold's term.
  • I lived in Hollywood for a few years after my parents abandoned me, I tried being homeless and an actor at the same time... While I did end up in a couple movies, I hardly ever made money off it and eventually gave up.
  • @Dad-Gad
    Growing up here in the UK in the 80s and being a skateboarder , California was like a dream to me . Oh how wrong I was .
  • @KingSeven007
    My uncle once told me the American Dream is that bit of panic when you wake up in the middle of driving from your morning job to your night job.
  • @SlackersIndustry
    Best thing i did was get out 7 years ago, the writing was on the wall. Good look to all .
  • @tiffaniex333
    The parallels between Cali and the whole of North America are clear. The system, the STATE, is the issue. It was never designed to give us the “American dream.” Our struggles are all interconnected
  • @petrolo72
    💯 the California in this documentary in 2009, was infinitely better in almost every aspect than it is today. Crime has risen by multiple factors, homelessness has exploded, the corrupt politicians making policy in the state have put the state in a position and deficit hundreds of percentage points greater than it was during the financial crisis of 2009.
  • @catcubus
    Hoping to have left California within the next 3 years!! It's become too expensive to live here.
  • @ekkolima
    State coffers are empty?? Ask Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi. Put them on the streets for a week, 🤔..
  • @goGDOGod
    This video was uploaded 3 days ago and the clips they are showing us are from 2009? 20:58
  • @alexcarter8807
    Hell 60 years ago, everyplace in the US was the American Dream. Now, it's California/Hawaii prices everywhere (the cheapest place I've lived, in my experience, is Hawaii where I grew up) and it's not the fault of any particular "Nation-State" like California, it's that there are a LOT more people now.