Neither Romney-Ryan nor Obama-Biden are synonyms for Catholic social teaching.
The Democratc ticket replaces the family structure with government, and encourages the break-up of families, through broad direct and indirect support of illegal immigration, and through contraceptive dispensaries in public schools, which discourage academic focus and encourage a social focus, and which also set young people up for a cycle of fornication which often terminates (if not in abortion) with single parenthood, poverty, long-term dependency and few choices…
The Republican ticket favors tax breaks for the wealthy and for corporations, which together tend to suppress upward mobility for the middle class. “Trickle-down” has never substantially materialized. It’s a theory that greater business profits will benefit job creation, but so far even recent incentives (despite repeated promises by corporations) have failed to produce such a benefit. And businesses provide the circular argument that they “don’t [yet] have confidence in the economy” and thus “can’t create new jobs,” when one thing that grows and sustains a healthy economy is in fact new employment.
Both parties are looking out for self-interest: the Democrats to retain their position as the principal providers to a social class which they very much help to create and enlarge; the Republicans to retain positions of power in a virtual oligarchy.
Honest voters have to weigh: Which ticket, if either, will be less likely to create harm to society in the combined elements of Catholic teaching?
