Belloc said: cherished values........to conservatives, water under bridge, nothing to see, lets move on now to blaming all problems on Obummer......
Awesome, good to see you back, Belloc! I like how you defeat "conservative" ideas in these pithy, hilarious sound bites.
This pathetic excuse for "conservatism" is nothing but greedy economic liberalism taken to the nth degree. You mentioned the other day that you take some ideas from Democrats. That would be ANATHEMA to many trads, but in reality, Catholics were always Democrats before the abortion issue, because that party is more in line with Catholic social justice ( and here I am not offering an opinion but a fact, read Quadragesimo Anno by Pius XI where he directly criticizes the neo-con attitude of today, with people thinking that the state should never help anyone ).
At least the Democrats pay some lip-service to charity for the poor; because Catholics follow Republicans, you now have the spectacle of Catholics who support the absolute rape of the poor with the rationale that rich people who make six billion times more than their workers create jobs... Never in history before has there been such a ludicrous disparity of wealth.
And they hold onto this idea even when it has been proven that these CEOs are not regulated by anything and farm out the jobs to India and China, and that the entire infrastructure of the nation, and the world, is being eaten away by them. But no, they blame it on welfare... Oh, and these companies aren't bailed out, along with the banks, by the government?! Why is that kind of welfare okay?
Yeah, it's all Protestant, the whole attitude. It's all about "I got mine, forget everybody else." The American dream. I WORKED to get where I am, even if it was just luck or I'm a sellout or a bastard, or the government bailed me out, these other lazy bums should have become Masons too, then they can be like me instead of the losers they are! It's a game of musical chairs, that's all it is. I wonder if these people thank God for whatever money they have, or if they think they are entitled to it. Do they really work harder than medieval peasants who lived in grinding poverty? Something tells me no. Yet oh, how proud they are of their hard work. No matter how hard you work, it is not inevitable that you should be rich, that is another American fallacy, where is the humility here?
It is unbelievable. How did Catholics get to the point where they are more sympathetic towards someone like Mitt Romney than towards the poor who are being raped and raped and raped every single second of the day, and it's getting worse and worse? Then if Obama throws the poor a bone to keep them from rioting, they flip out. They still think that elbow grease and gumption is going to make everyone employed, when industries are collapsing every day, and the entire housing market is only propped up by various shenanigans. And yet these same people, who voluntarily support a system that is slowly making us all slaves, are terrified to death of prison camps and so on... Here in CA., almost no one can afford a house even with these whopping FHA loans, so it is investors who are buying up properties to rent them out... So that is slowly disappearing from America, being able to own our own homes, and it isn't because of welfare, it's because of unregulated crony capitalism.
The funny/sad thing is that trads think they have to go along with the entire Jєωιѕн and destructive and greedy and raping "conservative" program, just because of the abortion issue, yet they never really do a thing to stop abortion! So they have accepted all these errors, perhaps lost charity, and gotten nothing in return... That is not very clear-sighted.