Justice

Justice

Whatever moral clarity I have in politics hasn’t come to me naturally.  Mom says I have been concerned about the unfairness and injustices of the world since I was a child, but I’m not a lawyer.  I could claim that it was the cancer, and that my new purpose was forged in a sea of radiation. But really it is Chris Hayes’ podcast, Why Is This Happening?  A year of listening to different thinkers (via Ezra Klein also) has radicalized me on the American promise.

[A] genuinely multi-ethnic, multi-racial pluralistic egalitarian democracy has never been brought forth on this Earth, ever.  --Chris Hayes

The most inspiring political project I have encountered is that of extending the American promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to all people.  Not just the whites, the men, the straights, the rich, the literate, the able, the strong, the religious, and the correct. All the people, all the time.  

Justice
--Can you fucking believe it--