[ClearCase_guy]

Distributism was an economic system proposed by Hillaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton a hundred years ago. It emphasized property ownership, low-level political decision-making, morality, and personal freedom. It was based on Christian moral teachings and was envisioned as being between Capitalism (which Belloc and Chesterton saw as inevitably trending toward Big Government helping Big Money to squeeze out the middle class) and Socialism (which they saw as tyranny by Big Government during everyone into slaves of the state).

It is something of a political cliche is support "capitalism". It's a knee-jerk response. I'm a Conservative, therefore I support "capitalism". Well I look around and I have to admit that capitalism has some flaws. It does tend to get intertwined with Big Government and it does seem to trend toward Fascism.

I'd like a political system where the government could not corrupt the free market. Distributism was designed to be that political system.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

There’s a lot of blind worship of “capitalism” and not enough of true freedom. Socialism and Big Money fighting over the reins of Big Government and control of a global empire and “world leadership” is far from the America envisioned by the founders of our nation.