The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our IDEAL of freedom and justice, how we were going to be DIFFERENT, and what the American EXPERIMENT was going to be about.
Read MoreOne of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that EVERYONE wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the PROJECTS surrounded by other poor people and have, like, TEN DOLLARS in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
Read MoreThe people who are absent are the ideal; those who are PRESENT SEEM to be QUITE COMMONPLACE.
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