The Plight of the Polarized Voter

[djmason]

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As I read the forums, I am struck by a consistent tone of not digging into the facts, and I feel this harms the clarity of a cause. If you’re talking about justice such as the prolife movement, what are the real issues? If you’re talking about ending poverty, then what are the social dynamics that create poverty?

Justice: All causes needing justice have a villain. It’s the villain or antagonist who is provoking circumstances that are damaging and is creating a need for compensation and restoration. This forum thread is about Social Justice. One antagonist I see frequently in the forums is the spectre of generalization.

Here’s a sample of a generalization: The Occupy Movement was aimed at corporate abuses of power. So to the viewer the message was that all corporations were oppressive and guilty of sequestering the resources of the planet and thus leaving the rest of humanity scraping by in a meager existence. The facts are, there are certain companies that contribute to this negative model, while there are many which are good in enriching their employees and their communities. By generalizing an issue of corporate oppression, the Occupy Movement ran out of gas.

If millions of Catholics wanted to end abortion, poverty, and also wanted to have a more just society, then they would need to take personal responsibility to find out what’s really causing the damage. They would need to organize and not be glued into some political format which has a mandate to demonize the opposition.

Planned Parenthood and Private Health Care insurance companies both provide abortion services; this is the truth. The differences are that one person can afford the service and the other needs a charitable organization to have the same service. Is not the truth important in this cause?

There are medical issues that are raising the cost of health care. What corporations are contributing to ill health? What corporations are contributing to wellbeing?

What corporations are contributing to financial oppression of a country? What corporations are contributing to a nation’s prosperity?

Not all corporations are created equal. How are these business entities affecting the nation as a whole?

If every movement was dependent on third party political spin, you’re not going to fix anything. A matter of fact, you will be protecting the very thing you want to change. Wouldn’t Free Enterprise justify aggressive corporate behaviors by companies who are into retailing addiction and disease and thus increasing medical costs? At the same time, would restricting free enterprise for those corporations that have a positive impact on our society harm our society’s ability to thrive?

Accountability is to be able to tell the difference and act on it. There’s more to Christian Justice than being pushed into being a polarized voter.

God Bless…
Opinions are welcome

 

[manualman]

Not only are today’s voters polarized, they have been conned into believing they have only two real choices:

Party A: The party of the entrepreneurial rich
Party B: The party of the entrenched investor rich
Figure out for yourself which is which.

Those are the only two candidates who ever end up winning national elections. We’re even told that if we vote for a third party we’re “wasting our vote.” As if choosing our favorite Oligarch leader is the only rational political choice!

Rhetoric aside, neither party has seriously proposed a policy which would help the little guy become prosperous in a long time. It’s all about payback for their supporters.

 

[Michael_Mayo]

Your post reminded me of the “weeds and the wheat”. But we can’t just wait for the harvester to come and seperate them.

****If millions of Catholics wanted to end abortion, poverty, and also wanted to have a more just society, then they would need to take personal responsibility to find out what’s really causing the damage. They would need to organize and not be glued into some political format which has a mandate to demonize the opposition.

Yes, pesonal responsibility and organize. And with so many issues we would prabably have to pick one that most moves us.

 

[PaulfromIowa]

OP, you seem somewhat confused, linking the violence of abortion to poverty and business issues. Abortion and other murders are inherently evil. There is no debating about this. There is no need to wonder about the “causes” of murder and violence. Evil is the cause of murder and we must resist Evil always. If you want to call this polarizing, then good, you are getting the idea.

 

[djmason]

Your statement is a generalization… Because you are saying in this reply that there is no correlation between economics, addiction and poverty to being a contributing factor in abortion… Because we as a society are inherently evil. I think your wrong, not everyone is engaging in abortion or violence for that fact. What then are the determining factors?