Can we keep the following dream alive?

Question

"the spirit of which I speak. Memorable ideas sprang from it: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”…“created equal”… “government of, by, and for the people”…“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”…“I have a dream.” Those were transformational epochs in American politics, brought forth by the founding patriots who won our independence, by Lincoln and his Lieutenants who saved the Union, by Franklin Roosevelt who saved capitalism and democracy, and by Martin Luther King, martyred in the struggle for equal rights. These moments would have been lost if left to transactional politics—the traditional politics of “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” But moral leadership transcended the realities at hand and changed the course of our history.

Never have we been more in need of transformational leadership.

America’s a great promise but it’s a broken promise."
Bill Moyers

Answer 1

true.. america is going to hell in a hand basket.

Answer 2

As long as there are a few people to keep the dream alive, it will stay alive, like a phoenix arising from its own ashes. The world has evolved to the point it has by the sudden eruption of a small number of dreamers and geniuses who arise every so often and revolutionize our thinking, despite the fact that the vast majority of people seek to keep the status quo alive. The world has progressed because the revolutionary slowly becomes the status quo. Man progresses not in small measured steps, but in sudden leaps and bounds.

Answer 3

It has been said that we are constantly called upon to create our own destiny. Each of our choices set us on a course which we find dificult to alter once we see where we are headed. The answer to your question lies in what our moral selves ask of us and what we ask of each other. Kyropotkin's advice to the student, " Imagine a world in which you would want to live and work, think of what we would need to know to make that world, and demand that your teachers teach you that. " is relavant here.To keep the dream alive citizens must demand it, from ourselves, each other and our public servants.