Amen…It is a world system…We are forced to pick one that is closest to our values…The one irony of it all is one party focuses on entitlments BUT the command it sent by Christ to His
How we accomplish this is the million dollar question.
I completely agree. In single member plurality elections the candidates move to the center. If you pay attention in primaries the candidates are at the center of their party. As soon as they win they move to the center of the entire electorate. The Republicans are really the same product just packaged differently. The same people that elect Democrats one election cycle elect Republicans the next. What has changed about the people, the voters, in between that time? Nothing. The winning political party has just changed its packaging slightly to attract more voters.
Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party go against various teachings of the Church. The Democratic Party goes against the teachings on abortion which has resulted in the death of over 50 million human beings. The Republican Party supports the Death Penalty… however the Death Penalty is not always and everywhere evil like abortion is. True, it might be hard in modern times to find where the death penalty is not evil, but at least hypothetically such an instance could occur. Whereas there is never an instance where abortion is right.
The question is perhaps more properly asked of the opposing party, in light of doctrines and platforms adopted in recent decades. If we go back to the mid 1960s and the great expansion in federal government “aid” to the poor, we see that, by nearly all objective standards, the poor are worse off today after the spending of trillions of dollars. Social programs have had the practical effect of helping to destroy society. Intent does not matter, when the result causes only the suffering it was intended to alleviate.
I would dispute that. I believe that voting is first of all pointless. The chance of your vote making a difference is next to nothing. You could do some actual good, like helping at a homeless shelter, with the time you would have spent in line voting. And if the choice is between two evil candidates then you have a duty not to vote. This is most clear in the sham communist elections where you do have a choice of candidates. I dont think US elections are much better, but I realize that is my opinion.
With the type of government we have, single member plurality, you end up with only two parties. The actual parties can change over time but you’ll still basically have just two major parties. The current parties we suffer under have enacted laws to ensure we will never get rid of them.
The Church avoids endorsing a political party or parties because their platforms change over the years. It use to be that the Republican Party was “the rich man’s party,” and the Democratic Party was the “working man’s party.” Some people still think this is the case, but closer examination reveals they no longer fit these bumper sticker descriptions. IMHO, whatever the faults of the Republican Party are, the Democratic Party is obsessed and fascinated by death and communism. This obsession and fascination are the prime movers of its dementia.
Death? THen why are democrats so interested in keeping people alive with entitlement programs? (for the pro-choice, once they are born)
Well it would have been a milestone had the U.K. voted for proportional representation- but they failed to get rid of the first past the post there.
The individual’s vote may not change much. But that line of thinking would preclude taking any participation in a larger effort. And, if no-one at all voted, a representative republic could not exist and would likely be replaced by a tyranny of some kind.