that the author seems to consider "imagining new realities" to be such a danger.
If nations are formed by imagined communities, empires create imagined realities. It’s no wonder Trump, someone so capable of imagining new realities, would emerge under the conditions his predecessors created for him.
Back in the spring of 1968, while announcing his candidacy for President, RFK said this, paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw, “Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were
and say why not?”
Guess we are fortunate he didn't get elected, huh? I was going to say we dodged a bullet, but phrasing.
The quote you are referencing RFK did say, but its origin is George Bernard Shaw in one of his plays. RFK also was using it for JFK used it 5 years earlier. In an address to the Ireland parliment.
Personally my favorite use of it was when MAGNETO said it in one of the Claremont X-Men comics to Cyclops on his Cthulhu island. Let the Holocaust survivor reclaim agency by turning the phrase again and saying "I have the power to make my dreams a reality. And that I shall do." (drinks wine)
But hey words do not have meaning without the nearby context around them 
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