Utopias, populist resentment, and really Anglicans in Byzantine garb
- Libertarianism as utopia. Nope. the Non-Aggression Principle is something that civilized people agree to among themselves, at best, and is certainly not something you assume people will adhere to by nature. It's based on Christian ethics; utopias are often Christian heresies. Political correctness is one.
- Trump: Pope Francis doesn't understand America's problems. I agree and yes, I'm still Catholic. The Pope is only infallible when his office defends our doctrine; the man's opinions can be dead wrong. Francis is a Peronist Argentine, a well-meaning Christian reformer who doesn't understand economics. And illegal immigration is theft.
- Trump vs. Sanders. I'd like that. Both candidates are signs that Middle America isn't dead. Populism: we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore from the conventional Republicans and Democrats. If Trump kills the conventional Republican Party (what have you done for me lately, if ever?), good. The outcome I want: President Trump, Vice President Cruz, and Rand Paul in the Cabinet. (Better: the Libertarian candidate, my vote since 2004, but we know that won't happen.)
- 100 years ago the convertodox would have been Anglicans: "We can be Catholic without having to eat our words about the Pope." That has a lot of appeal in Protestant America, plus you've got politically correct exoticism, or it's cool to force Greek paintings on Christians as de fide, be vegan shopping at Whole
Foods Paycheck and tell everybody you're fasting, etc.
Catholic integralism is the true seamless garment.
What are illegal immigrants stealing?
ReplyDeleteA country's resources, which belong to its citizens; the point of being a country.
DeleteThey are also lowering the wages of the laboring classes in the United States, this is especially true in the construction industry. They are also stealing the hard earned rights of legal immigrants to the United States who have followed the rules.
DeleteSo the US industrialist who have factories in Mexico underpaying them are not stealing? Its one of the sins that cries out to heaven for vengeance. What about the USA's stealing territory from Mexico. So indigenous peoples from Mexico have no right to be in territory them belonged to them 100 years ago. The USA has along history of exploiting and stealing from others even willing to pick wars to do so. Hawaii was stolen and so was the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteWell, when one considers that Mexico had only recently stolen the American Southwest from Spain, and Spain from the Indians, I fail to understand your point.
DeleteAnd, I agree no American companies should be employing Mexicans in Mexico, we should keep our jobs at home.
The Philippines was stolen by Spain, and we took it in 1898, after centuries of Spanish occupation and misrule; guess who did a better job of building an infrastructure, building a public school system from K to Ph.D. level, and allowing religious freedom?
It is obvious you have spent far too much time in the present, loath-America educational system.
I can't go with you on the idea of a Trump presidency. You're essentially asking for Mitt Romney 1.0 (Governor of MA era), but replacing Romney's LDS niceness with Trump's brash machismo. Why would I want the whole country to buy that product?
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