Former "Melrose Place" star Andrew Shue believes that the majority of Americans have lost faith in the promise that once defined the country.During an interview with Fox News Digital, the 59-year-old actor, who founded the new bipartisan initiative The Forum, shared his grim assessment of the current mood of citizens in the United States, arguing that people across the economic and political spectrum are struggling.JOHN ADAMS MADE A TERRIFYING PREDICTION.AMERICA IS CLOSE TO PROVING HIM CORRECT"There's nobody in this country right now that thinks we're in a good place," Shue said.
"You look around and you say, how do we feel about our kids? How do we fill it feel about our kid's future? What kind of anxiety level do we all have? You're seeing 70% believe the American dream is dead or dying."Andrew Shue became a household name on ‘Melrose Place’ (Getty Images for ADAPT Leadership Awards)"So we're all in this boat together," he continued."There's nobody who's jumping out, whether you're a billionaire, a bartender, everybody in between, we are all in this together."Shue said that Americans' growing pessimism is not being driven by a single election or political figure, but by systemic problems he believes have accumulated over decades."We're realizing that the engine is broken and the main systems that drive that engine are our political system and our economic system," Shue explained.
"The political system only rewards people in power — there happen to be a lot of old people — and performative conflict.The economic system is really just rewarding people at the top.
Ninety percent feel like they're treading water or underwater, and have been for decades.The other thing I'll say is all of these problems existed long before [current U.S.
President] Donald Trump came to the scene."WATCH HERE: ‘MELROSE PLACE’ ALUM ANDREW SHUE SAYS 70% BELIEVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ‘DEAD OR DYING’WORLD SERIES CHAMPION JOE GIRARDI REVEALS WHAT HE FINDS MOST 'DISTURBING' AB...