Word: daydream
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...would 60% of the American public buy that one? No, what this tax cut has going for it is the American Dream--not the American Dream that politicians talk about but something closer to the American Daydream, the fantasy of suddenly becoming enormously, improbably rich. If my experience is any guide, what Americans daydream about is not acquiring hundreds of millions of dollars themselves. For the average wage slave, a believable fantasy in which he becomes, say, a computer mogul is too difficult to construct, and making it at all persuasive requires him to imagine himself to be as dorky...