Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
There are no adequate substitutes for father mother and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government no matter how well-intentioned can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
That strong mother doesn't tell her cub Son stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says Toughen up this is reality we are living in.