Tambourines and Kumbaya

David Brooks:

The natural alliance for antipoverty measures at home and abroad is between liberals and evangelical Christians. These are the only two groups that are really hyped up about these problems and willing to devote time and money to ameliorating them.

The faint whiff of compromise and congeniality might be a good springboard for other issues that should, at least on paper, be matters of agreement for ur-Christians and the Left.

Of course, Brooks notes that this would require that evangelicals set down their vivid abortion placards, and can the malarkey about creationism for a few moments. And presumably the Lefties would need to take a break from distributing condoms and Michael Moore books to kindergarteners.

I guess I shouldn't be so sarcastic. I should instead ask: What would Bono do? And the truth is we could do much, much more to provide food and medicine to millions of impoverished people, especially children. It's sobering, but it's a direct challenge and a huge opportunity to griefers from both political extremes.