What kind of a country do we want?
Fox News and guests threw a blizzard of chaff into the air last night to reassure MAGAstan that the 37-count Trump felony indictment was a malicious hit job by the left against the patron saint of kitch. After a few glances, I needed a palate cleanser.
John Pavlovitz regularly reposts some of his sermonettes. One from April he posted last night, “The Conservative War on Everything,” outlines how the conservative project “is a case study in what fear does when it fully grips a group of people.” Their view is as bleak and cold as Trump’s “American carnage.” Their oversized displays of “patriotism” smack of flop-sweat desperation.
“In this environment,” Pavlovitz wrote, “the human heart become unable to manufacture empathy for the other, as it finds encroaching enemies everywhere it looks.”
The result is a withered soul. Millions of them.
Another post he wrote just days ago, “Woke Will Win,” indirectly lays out the choice America faces: fear or hope.
Yes, the Woke Mob is coming for them: the disparate, sprawling army of human beings who know that diversity makes us better, that compassion is the better path, that more voices make a sweeter sound, that everyone should gave the chance to have joy in this life.
And the bigots and the hate-preachers and the supremacists are right to be afraid of us because we in our “wokeness” are going to make sure that they do not have the final word here.
Kindness is woke.
Compassion is woke.
Generosity is woke,
Love is woke.At the heart of it all, to those who traffic in this latest war cry, to be woke is to be deeply human.
And that humanity will be the foe they cannot defeat and are right to fear.
Woke will win.
Perhaps starting with equal justice for all.