tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post2302525581231323293..comments2023-10-25T08:46:20.242-05:00Comments on The Distributist Review: Is America Ungovernable?John Médaillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463267750952578888noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-12336355874655872592009-12-12T19:53:45.973-06:002009-12-12T19:53:45.973-06:00As of now, America is ungovernable...looking at th...As of now, America is ungovernable...looking at the politicians who are leading this country to nowhere, what else can we say!monicahttp://samsonblinded.org/newsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-74848425548958454422009-11-30T08:04:57.247-06:002009-11-30T08:04:57.247-06:00"A congressional race can easily cost $1,000,..."A congressional race can easily cost $1,000,000 but the congressman is in office for only 730 days. That means he must raise $1,370 for each and every day he is in office, weekends, Christmas, Easter, and Flag Day included."<br /><br /><br />It's worse than that...<br /><br />Uncle Jay Explains Congress <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QakVlC3X_sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-71769189295730735262009-11-30T07:18:30.004-06:002009-11-30T07:18:30.004-06:00Eric,
I agree with your comments, but sadly, in e...Eric,<br /><br />I agree with your comments, but sadly, in every eelction 99% of voters vote either "D" or "R" and despite their grumblings are not willing to work for aor pay the price to build a 3rd party.I myself for 3 1/2 yrs was chairman of the Constitution Party in NC. A lot of "we like what your Party stands for, but cant risk losing this election to ______(fill in name of boogeyman)"Chris Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330217544238982513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-4578945744231728072009-11-27T08:37:05.440-06:002009-11-27T08:37:05.440-06:00Hi. I quite agree that the US is ungovernable. No ...Hi. I quite agree that the US is ungovernable. No wonder if we have a look at the administrators who lead the country. Unfortunately, it seems that honesty was exchanged for money and comfortable living. <br />Take care,<br />Lornelife insurance rbchttp://lsminsurance.ca/canadian-life-insurance-companies/rbc-life-insurancenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-39998020921598263862009-11-26T02:30:26.884-06:002009-11-26T02:30:26.884-06:00Great essay. De Toqueville said something to the e...Great essay. De Toqueville said something to the effect that large nations remain strong, while small ones remain happier. The Church, in her wisdom, supports subsidiarity as a means to a happy state. <br /><br />As it is, the reality in our country today is one of big government, and big business; everyday the two get closer and closer. <br /><br />I agree with you that creating a viable third party is going to be a rough road to travel. <br /><br />Perhaps the answer lies in creating a type of "parallel" community, or communities espousing Catholic distributist beliefs. People are doing amazing things with various cooperative enterprises and even social credit systems at a small level. <br /><br />This could then grow to create a more cohesive base for a third party of this type to platform from. <br /><br />In other words, the growth of a third party would have to begin at a very micro level.Eric J. Peethttp://www.marmosetjazz.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-11680129659851133832009-11-25T21:19:49.600-06:002009-11-25T21:19:49.600-06:00America is ungovernable because it's culture d...America is ungovernable because it's culture doesn't permit or produce the kind of leadership and moral courage needed to challenge the finance oligarchs and allow people take political action for social justice and self-government. <br /><br />No moral person wants to be a part of this system but paradoxically without moral leadership there is no way out of the situation.Septeus7noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-67554117378834657352009-11-22T21:12:34.956-06:002009-11-22T21:12:34.956-06:00Mr. Medaille,
A fine piece.
We are indeed headed...Mr. Medaille,<br /><br />A fine piece.<br /><br />We are indeed headed towards the fate of the Weimer Republic.Jeremiah Whitmoorehttp://neopaleocons.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-56295576475505749452009-11-22T16:14:05.174-06:002009-11-22T16:14:05.174-06:00Well, let's hope we get our ideas out before t...Well, let's hope we get our ideas out before these people do.<br /><br />In the United States, the American Secular Union and Freethought Federation, presided over by Mr. E. P. Peacock, with many affiliated local societies, has for its object the separation of Church and State, and for its platform the nine demands of Liberalism, namely:<br /><br />-that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall be no longer exempt from taxation;<br />-that the employment of chaplains in Congress, in state legislatures, in the army and navy, and in prisons, asylums, and all institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued, and that all religious services maintained by national, state, or municipal governments shall be abolished;<br />-that all public appropriations for educational and charitable institutions of a sectarian character shall cease;<br />-that, while advocating the loftiest instruction in morals and the inculcation of the strictest uprightness of conduct, religious teaching and the use of the Bible for religious purposes in public schools shall be prohibited;<br />-that the appointment by the President of the United States and the governors of the various states of religious festivals, fasts, and days of prayer and thanksgiving shall be discontinued;<br />-that the theological oath in the courts and in other departments of government shall be abolished, and simple affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury, established in its stead;<br />-that all laws directly or indirectly enforcing in any degree the religious and theological dogma of Sunday or Sabbath observance shall be repealed;<br />-that all laws looking to the enforcement of Christian morality as such shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to the requirements of natural morality, equal rights and impartial justice;<br />-that, in harmony with the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the several states, no special privileges or advantages shall be conceded to Christianity or any other religion; that our entire political system shall be conducted and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes are necessary to this end shall be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made.Besorgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10971819580344165047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-24176467610829139472009-11-22T05:25:00.763-06:002009-11-22T05:25:00.763-06:00Of course America is ungovernable. Isn't that ...Of course America is ungovernable. Isn't that a major reason for distributism and subsidiarity?<br /><br />It should be clear to all that the growth of government is directly proportional to its failure to work.ATnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608702.post-10921181824366396752009-11-20T13:29:15.208-06:002009-11-20T13:29:15.208-06:00Thankfully, I do not vote Deomocrat and Republican...Thankfully, I do not vote Deomocrat and Republican that much, especially national level. I agree with what John said in his article " Distributivism and Catholic Social Teaching" about third parties and the unfair advantages they have to overcome.<br /><br />I think the fall is now inevitable.....<br /><br />It is up to use to promote a way to survive and eventually, build back some of society...we will all be Distributists in the end, some may not like it, but it is going to happen.....Chris Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330217544238982513noreply@blogger.com