God Loves Everyone

After a week of the torture generation of our government getting exposed, exposing themselves, revealing the banality of evil at their core, it's nice to see that young people in the middle of America, i.e. Kansas, are taking on the haters with all the grace in the world:



I've been working on a theory of Obama's significance that he's the first World Leader to represent a whole new generation that doesn't want to hate people different from them, they want to exchange playlists with them. The battle isn't so much between the U.S. and the al Qaida so much as it's this whole post-Cold War generation against the Cheney et al reactionary class and al Qaida.

Now, I'm not Pollyannic about it. There's no doubt that some of our enemies do want us to feel pain, die, collapse. But as we are the most interconnected global population in the history of the earth, and as benevolent capitalism is the single best diplomat for America and advocate for democracy, and as most people just want to live a decent life and make a better one for their children, we're in a whole different phase of social evolution -- again, on the global scale.

The reaction forces of Islam or rightwing America are on the wane. There will have to be real scarcity to cause a lot more war, and maybe the global recession will do it, but our President is taking farsighted steps to lessen that possibility, from stimulus to renewable energy to his upcoming public health plan. And engaging in the kind of diplomacy, with his stellar Secretary of State, to get the rest of the reasonable world moving in the right direction.

So here's to the school students of Wichita's Walt Whitman High. As they stand tall against the type of mothers who wear "GOD HATES FAGS" t-shirts in front of their own children, they're making me feel a quite a bit better about America's future.