An Exercise in Utopianism: The need for unrealistic longing

Humans by their very nature want. They want for food, for shelter, for community. Why does this sentiment not translate to our politics. Why do we not allow ourselves to dream. To dream of the way things could be, instead of the way that they are. We settle, in American politics, for the worst possible option and one that's only claim is not to be as bad as the other guy. This is no way to live. No way to view our future. We must dream...