Fantasy Island

Ken MacClune

Americans today live in a fantasy land. And this fantasy is now isolating us from the rest of the world.

Americans today expect to cut taxes yet get all of the services they always have.

Americans today expect to spend every last dollar of income, save not a penny, go heavily into debt, and yet have a comfortable retirement.

Americans today expect the poor to take what trickles down and be happy with it, despite the fact that they too watch television and that they, like us, are convinced that they are nothing without the latest piece of imported plastic crud.

Americans today expect that we can withdraw hope from millions of people and that those people will not turn to drugs.

Americans today expect that we can cut welfare in a down economy and there will be no increase in crime.

Americans today want to be free from government yet want a safe food supply, safe working conditions, maintained roadways, safe air travel, low crime rate, good education, clean air, clean water, a strong military, new medical drugs, new technology, etc., etc.

Americans today want emerald green lawns in the desert.

Americans today expect that if you give tax breaks to people who have everything they want, they will buy more.

Americans today want freedom, yet they just want “feel good” news.

Americans today want a strong country, yet they do not want to care for anyone but themselves.

Americans today want security, yet want they want the world's problems to just go away.

The problem that so many Democrats and Progressives have today is that they are trying to break this fantasy. “Wake-up, wake-up from your dream world” people are told. The movement to the Republican Party is their answer. “Fuck you” they tell us. “Fuck you”

So what do we do? We create a new fantasy, a new positive fantasy. My question to you is what IS that fantasy?


(I write of Americans not because I think the rest of the world does not share either all or some of these traits but because I am an American, I know its people more than I do the people of the rest of the world. I do not think that Americans hold any special trait that somehow the rest of the human race on the planet does not. Except possibly one, Noam Chomsky has said that we are the most indoctrinated people on the planet due to the degree of power we could potentially wield. What do I think? Not sure.)