"This is what the bastards never understood—that the “Movement” was essentially an expression of deep faith in the American Dream: that the people they were “fighting” were not the cruel and cynical beasts they seemed to be, and that in fact they were just a bunch of men like everybody’s crusty middle-class fathers who only who only needed to be shaken a bit, jolted out of their bad habits and away from their lazy, short term, profit-oriented life stances… and that once that they understood, they would surely do the right thing."
Hunter S. Thompson on The American Dream—From Kingdom of Fear (via fearandloathingus)
