Have we lost our ability to dream big dreams? I wonder. Our founders had big dreams of creating a new kind of system of governance.
We fought wars to maintain that system and then even had a great Civil War to challenge it's basic tenets.
We endured several great economic setbacks, the Panic and the Depression.
We fought to help our "brothers in arms" who loved freedom and liberty to save their way of life during WWII.
When I was growing up in the 50's and 60's my country had big dreams of home ownership for anyone who wanted to work for it, for education that would allow us to move our country forward intellectually and economically, dreams of nurturing our democratic way of life in all the places where people wanted it, dreams of eliminating totalitarian regimes wherever they oppressed the citizens of a country, and dreams of sending men to the moon.
We created an "Industrial Giant" to win World War II and kept growing it to defeat totalitarianism. We created something that was the "wonder" of the world.
We have always been a county with dreams and goals. Do we have a common dream and goal as a country today?
I, for one, don't feel it. But tell me if I'm mistaken. Tell me what our common dream is, what is our common goal? I know I could come up with some that I like and probably so could you, but is there something out there that I'm not seeing, not feeling that we all share as a common goal/dream?
You tell me.
