For Me Leftism Is Hope

Hope that we don’t have to just agree “oh well life is unfair” and never ask why that is or what we can do to fix it.

Hope that we can not only preserve but repair our enviornment with the products of our ingenuity.

Hope that the world does not have to be cruel.

Hope that there is a better way, that this is not the best humankind can do.

For so long I accepted the tired old liberal refrain of “well reform to the fucked up system is the best we can do, this is the best we can do” and accepted the cruelty, the meanness of the world, but we don’t have to accept that.

Humans are marvelous, creative, innovative creatures and yet somehow this nightmare that destroys so many lives is “the best we can do”?  Capital does everything it can to deny the possibility of something better, jeers at those who even consider alternatives, and yet somehow we’re supposed to believe, that there’s nothing of interest behind the door they so desperately want to keep locked?  It is the church suppressing Galileo’s knowledge for fear of having its authority undermined.  They know they are wrong.