Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nAmericans of my generation are dreamers.\u00a0 We grew up believing the future held flying cars, any boy could become President or even better, an astronaut, and we\u2019d eventually find the Perfect Girl.\u00a0 We grew up believing America was the greatest nation on Earth, prosperity was here to stay and things would only get better, for ourselves and for our children.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>What do people like that do when flying cars turn out to be crappy little tin cans, when American astronauts have to hitch rides on Russian rockets, when The Girl leaves, taking the children with her?\u00a0 What do we believe in when the President tells us \u201cYou didn\u2019t build that,\u201d sends jobs out of the country, brings in millions of welfare leeches and not only lets our sworn enemies have The Bomb, he pays them $100 Billion to do it?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>What is left to believe in, when mental illness becomes constitutional right, when a lifetime of saving<\/span>s <\/span>and equity evaporates, when college students are afraid of chalk and seemingly sensible people can no longer figure out which bathroom to use?<\/span><\/p>\n