Hope makes the world go around. It is the essence of entrepreneurship: pursuing profits by meeting future consumer demand. Samuel Johnson over two centuries ago said that a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There are lots of second marriages. There is lots of hope.

Hope sells. In 1992, Bill Clinton's campaign biography was titled, The Man from Hope. In 2008, Barack Obama's campaign autobiography was titled, The Audacity of Hope.

Appealing to disgruntled voters' hope in change is a time-honored tactic of political challengers, because there are always lots of disgruntled voters. (Show me a disgruntled voter, and I'll show you a successful lobbyist.) No matter who gets elected, insufficient change occurs, which creates an opportunity for another political challenger to offer hope.

As far as the broad mass of voters is concerned, there is only hope deferred.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12).

Political desire never comes. Political hope is never realized. But the dream never dies.

And a sucker is born every minute.

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