He’s an Argentine, raised in a nanny-state that was ruled by military coups, Peron, the goddess Evita, more military cliques, Peron again, a brief flirt with democracy, and then a couple of kleptomaniacs.
And, by his own admission, he hasn’t watched television in more than twenty years. (I don’t know if he has ever used the Internet.) IOW, his world view is going to be very constricted, and very different from that of an American.
He is, imho, close to South American liberation theologians, if not quite one himself. And he is therefore going to be repeating their analysis of the world’s problems.
That this comes from ignorance, and not malice, doesn’t make the result any better.
The Pope confuses crony capitalism with Free Enterprise. You would think he would try to understand the difference.
“That this comes from ignorance, and not malice . . .”
In the age of information, ignorance requires malice.