In the movie version of Don Quixote, the protagonist, played by Peter O’Toole, imprisoned by the Inquisition, responds to a fellow prisoner’s statement, “A man has to come to terms with life as it is.” Don Quixote then proceeds to describe why just seeing the realities of life are never enough, how man’s greatest insanity is to see life as it is, “and not as it should be.”
Isn’t that where we are today. We focus upon the disasters, the pain and suffering, the distortions and dishonesty from business and government; and we accept it as beyond our control. In the words of Don Quixote, we’re engulfed in a world “where evil brings profit and virtue, none at all.” After all, we’re just one person against a sea of corruption; what can we do?
While it may not appear so, we are in control of our government. We can change the very faces in power. Collectively, we have superhuman strength. And that’s what the politicians fear most. With help from their allies in the media, they want to keep us from reclaiming our power, from returning the U.S. to a nation “of the people.” But we can and we must.
This is no Impossible Dream. Let us not give up just yet. There is work to be done. We can once again return our nation to the principles upon which it was founded. Let’s saddle up, don our armor, and mount a crusade to return sanity, honesty, integrity, and accountability to government and to business; and let us never accept our nation being less than it can, less than it should be.
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