Most of the news right now is bad, no doubt there. Conservatives are trying desperately to narrow the view of the public, an incompetent (or insidious) executive, everything with feathers is now a mobile weapons lab, and the NSA knows how this diary will end before I do. Sounds bad, but to quote a soon to be infamous American.
"These are the last throes."
Conservatism, what made it so great? Well, the ideas can fit on a bumper sticker, that's always good. They've been on bumper stickers, raised money, hired guns, and laid their little zealot eggs. They rose to absolute power, got everything they wanted. Now we know, the debate has been settled. They're wrong.
For the first time in the history of our nation, the ability for people to see and hear the mistakes and poor conception of conservative idealism has been amplified a thousand fold. And, it will echo in perpetuity. The mistakes made by our country at the beginning of the new millennium, as much damage as it has done, will be immortal in hard drives and hosts innumerable. The great contribution of the information age is this - we don't have the ability to ignore. Humanity has gained the most important tool since fire.
Conservatism has had its shot on the greatest stage that has ever been. It fell down. And, billions of people saw it. Billions, who no longer have the option to forget.
Now the stage is ours. The Conservatives have inadvertently given us the key to be the light of the information age. We will have more power to do the good and right things than any generation in human history. The moral authority is ours. This generation's impact will resound louder than the Athenians or Romans.
Disease, famine, poverty, human rights it's all there ahead of us, waiting for this new generation to think and build and, finally--solve. We can do it, can be the country that we are supposed to be.
And, I feel fine.