Debate delay

In blogtime, I'm about a hundred years late with this post but 'sokay - I don't have a helluva a lot to say - certainly nothing that hasn't been said a bunch of times already. What I'll recommend is this great piece by Ira Chernus with an introduction by Tom Engelhardt. This, to me, captured the essence of the divide in the American people.

There are those who desperately want to believe that the romanticized American dream they've been fed is the *real* world and there are those who know it isn't. Knowing that the mythological America is simply that - a myth - doesn't make it less powerful or elements of it less valuable. There is incredible value in stories and in our belief in them. However, when our story begins to become the only story that we care about, we set ourselves and others up for a great deal of pain and suffering when we try to find ways to make the story keep working no matter what.

So what's the story - American fantasy or the world's reality?