TC: God, thank you for taking the time to be with us today.
God: My pleasure.
TC: I’m sorry, I need to ask this upfront. Do you exist? Many have wondered.
God: Of course, I’m sitting with you here and now, am I not?
TC: Are you the One true God?
God: I’m the Deist God. I created Earth then walked away. I’ve had nothing to do with Earth or anything on it since the moment I created it. I realize that I am one God of many who claim to have created Earth. I can speak only to what I know to be true to myself. (Maybe one day I’ll autofiction my life and times, all time, under the title, God By God.) I can’t speak to the claims of others. A number of the founders of America called me their God, the Deist God. An expedient calculation between Enlightenment free-thinking of no god but the universe and the notion of an all-powerful anthropomorphic God, the Christian God in particular. The founders were quite the politicians, you know.
TC: Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. James Madison. Thomas Paine. Ethan Allen. All Deists. What about George Washington?
God: You know who George Washington believed in most of all? George Washington. He was rather sneaky about his views on God.
TC: Why do you suppose so many politicians today seek the evangelical Christian vote?
God: Because evangelism is all about propagandizing for your religion. That’s why evangelicals are natural born political propagandists. Their own evangelism doesn’t stop them from constantly complaining that others are trying to push their values on them. Not at all. They do the exact thing that they accuse in others. Politicians find this sort of hypocrisy and supremacy to be extremely useful. Politicians who front for Big Money and Big Gun discovered that they could get evangelicals to vote, to see their vote as evangelism, part of their religion. Religion in politics is wild. It leads to all kinds of crazy rationalizations. Any people of any religion who believe I, God, live in the sky or any other such nonsense can believe anything that gets passed around as truth. Mass delusions are perfect for politicians who constantly lie about money and might on behalf of the militant rulers of the world, the plutocracy. This is your Earth now, my man. Sorry to say.
TC: Was this part of a plan, God? Your plan? Did Earth turn out the way you hoped it would when you created it?
God: Not at all. I created a real shitstorm, didn’t I? Sorry about that. What’s done is done.
TC: So will Earth and the human species survive its current trials and tribulations, the many terminal moments it faces? Climate collapse. Nuclear Annihilation. Ecocide. Imperial wars. Genocide. Civil wars. Omnicide.
God: That’s up to you all. What do you think?
TC: It’s not looking good.
God: It’s not. So you better get to work.
TC: Let me ask you about the 2028 Presidential election in America.
God: Already? It’s three years out! Good God!
TC: It’s a big event though. Seismic.
God: Could be. If there is an election.
TC: Will there be? Will there be any more big elections ever?
God: Not if Trump and his fascist cohort have their way, no. But that’s up to you all.
TC: Who will win in 2028? Who will run?
God: I have no idea. I have no special insight. Just because I created the world, doesn’t mean I control anything on Earth. I don’t. Nothing. I created the place then stepped away. I am the Deist God. I may have misjudged a few things when I did so. I can give you my best guess about 2028 though.
TC: Please do.
God: AOC. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She could win. She could beat Ro Khanna, her strongest challenger in the Democratic Primary. Then she could pick him as her Vice President.
TC: What about the establishment candidates — Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and the like, or some billionaire, or celebrity?
God: Good God, no. You had better hope not. Those people offer nothing but more of the same old plutocracy.
TC: But can anyone not backed by establishment money win the Democratic primary?
God: Look, I’m God, but I don’t know. If I had to guess, the way it looks now, this is what I think happens: AOC runs as a progressive populist who is also partly establishmentarian. Ro Khanna runs as an establishmentarian who is also a progressive populist. And I think she beats him and takes him as her VP. I think the regular establishment candidates will be seen as entirely genocidal and plutocrat friendly, wishy-washy on trans rights, and will lose because of all that and more. So they may try to recruit a billionaire or a celebrity into the mix to win that way, like Trump did. If the left is smart, they will run multiple candidates to the left of AOC and Ro Khanna — both of whom have been touring the country in anticipation of the big run, both of whom foreground their progressive populist values and their anti-plutocrat anger and what they otherwise consider to be popular common sense, ideally for universal programs. AOC and Ro will run on progressive populist planks like Bernie did, and they should be able to attract enough small dollar support and votes to prevail over the full-blown establishment, including its billionaires and celebrities. By running candidates to the left of AOC and Ro — like Nina Turner — the left can help consolidate power eventually for AOC or Ro as a way to at least defeat the establishment — which is killing everything and everyone. Including in Palestine. What do you think?
TC: Seems reasonable. But AOC voted to send weapons recently to Israel “to defend itself” while Israel is genociding Palestinians with full American support and authority. How can any progressive populist person vote for someone who sends weapons to a genocide.
God: Good question. It was stupid. If you care about ending a genocide you don’t send weapons to the genocider so that it can protect itself to keep genociding. People make mistakes and that was a big one. But if progressive populists want to defeat the establishment for the first time ever for the Presidency, then AOC is still probably the most likely way to do it. She’s not perfect, obviously. But the establishment is monstrous and destructive beyond words — and very, very difficult to beat.
TC: So what would an AOC/Ro ticket mean? And would they be able to win the general election? Against who for the Republicans?
God: First of all, there needs to be an election, a real one. If there is a real election, or you know, semi-real is about all you can get, then, if Trump is still alive he may try to come in through the back door or in open defiance of the Constitution, but if he’s a non-factor, then it hardly matters who the Republicans run. Look at them. They’re all the same, almost. Batshit crazy supremacists each and every one. And why not? Have you seen the populace? Do you see the culture? A strong minority of the country are batshit crazy supremacists. And why not? It’s a large part of the history of the United States of America, founded as an empire, genocidal of the Natives, enslaving of Africans, and subjugating countries throughout the world to this very day, marauding and profiteering and genociding by gun and dollar. Republicans condition their supporters to believe that their survival and well-being depends upon straight white male plutocrat supremacy, and establishment Democrats condition their supporters to believe that their survival and well-being depends upon identity pride and plutocrat power. Meanwhile leftists know that plutocrats in capitalism are homicidal profiteers who run the military police state to maintain physical, financial, and political control of society and power. More and more people understand this now — thanks to social media and people’s media and culture at its most enlightened. Even some Republicans get it. That’s why Bernie Sanders would have won the Presidency, twice, with his progressive populist approach, because it’s so broadly sane and popular, and Trump never would have been President, but only if establishment Democrats and the plutocracy had not forced through the plutocrat Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Now, finally, surely enough people see that these establishment candidates are sheer death, like Trump — bloody profiteers who run cover for genocide, ecocide, and plutocrat thuggery and theft. But what do I know? I’m a deist God not an omnipotent God. I merely created this chaos. I don’t stage manage it. You can’t put that on me.
TC: It seems you’ve done enough.
God: Too much maybe. That said, don’t you think every mouse is a miracle?
TC: Creation is incredible. Not all of it.
God: I did something right.
TC: If only you had done more to the left.
God: That galaxy has sailed. Maybe you can correct it. Someone needs to.
TC: We should do this again, God. There’s so much more I would like to ask of you, from the perspective of someone who started it all, if you did. You know, really go back to the origin of all things to see ahead. Work ahead.
God: Oh, believe me, I like to talk to the long tail of my creation. Sometimes talking is better than world building. And after all I’ve seen, my days of world creation are over, I think.
TC: Probably for the best.
God: Probably.
TC: I don’t know how many would agree with your view on things though, God, even if you did create the world in the first place.
God: I don’t care who believes me. Why should I? After all—
TC: You’re God.
God: God I am. It’s good to be not of this Earth, even though I created it. You know what I mean?
TC: Do we really have any chance in Hell to survive here on Earth? To revolutionize?
God: I told you before, and I’ll tell you again — it’s up to you all.
