This column will be released on Sept. 11, a date that will live in apathy.

There's been a lot of discussion of a $15 an hour minimum wage, a discussion that has included street demonstrations, some legislation and a great amount of nastiness.

What you hear most often in the most recent phase of this dripping-with-hate discussion is that McDonald's will respond to such an attack by using robots to make and deliver food.

Oh, the joy with which this possibility is received by the conservative Imams of Envy who encourage American workers to fight each other for loose change!

"Serves 'em right," some gloat. "Instead of getting $15 an hour, they're all gonna lose their jobs!"

How did we get from that nation that stood together crying to the nation that loves to see people lose their jobs?

I'm a reporter for a daily newspaper. I've been to dozens of 9/11 events. I worked that day.

The thing about standing together in the street crying and waving the flag is that it really doesn't require you to do anything else. After you're done, you can dry the tears, fold the flag, go home and giggle while other people face the loss of their jobs.

The thing about getting all misty when they play "Taps," is that, when the song is over, you can say that black rioters in Ferguson, Missouri, should be "shot down like the animals they are."

The thing about lining the sidewalks for a military funeral is that, when it's done, you can support some waddling hillbilly of a county clerk who wants to bring segregation back to America.

And if it was your boy's funeral, well, at least he won't have to work for minimum wage. And if he had lived and all could find was work at McDonald's would you say it was right? Would you crow if a robot replaced him?

We want to destroy each other more than Iran wants to destroy America. We want to wipe poor people from existence as much as Osama bin Laden wanted to kill the people in the twin towers. We talk about welfare recipients the way Hezbollah talks about Jews. We scratch and kick and back stab and kill our own with the force of a million hijacked planes.

We are the terrorists destroying America. We hate America because we hate everyone poorer than we are. We hate America because we cannot give up our damnable, weak-minded, mean obsession with color and with sexuality. We hate America because if we make $20 an hour, we are scared to death that someone making $9 will make $15, because that will mean they are three-quarters as good as we are instead of less than half as good as we are.

We hate America because we'll listen to a bellowing blowhard like Donald Trump, a man with no platform except our own stupidity.

It's Sept. 11 again and we're all driving the plane.

To find out more about Marc Dion and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's latest book, "Marc Dion: Vol. I," is a collection of his best 2014 columns and is available for Nook and Kindle.