Markos over at the Daily Kos makes fun of Comrade Kucinich and his idea for a "Department of Peace".Here's Comrade Kucinich's words:
We can conceive of peace as not simply the absence of violence but the presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness, of respect, trust, and integrity. We can conceive of peace as a tool to tap the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform consciousness and conditions that impel or compel violence at a personal, group, or national level toward creating understanding, compassion, and love. We can bring forth new understandings where peace, not war, becomes inevitable. We can move from wars to end all wars to peace to end all wars.
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make nonviolence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development for economic and political justice and for violence control.
Kos says this:
"Higher evolution of human awareness"? "Transform consciousness"? "Paradigm shift"? What the hell is this crap?
When you believe the state is God on earth to handle every problem that humans have:you believe state action is progress.
