When I was growing up, the mysterious, yet seemingly real promise of living the American Dream was imbedded into almost every sector of our daily lives. From education to job expectation to financial security, curing disease or flying to the moon, it all seemed within reach. What happened? Well, nothing really, except that the guys with the football, the very, very, very rich, the owners of the mega corporations, the insurance companies, the manipulators of trillions of banking and investment dollars, quite simply, stopped pretending to care about anybody else.

I want to believe that there is a perfect storm of politics and conscience and an inbred passion for basic human survival that will swing the pendulum away from the dark side. I guess I’ll just have to dream on.