In America, America comes first. It’s that simple.
Our progressive friends need to realize that what was once true, like America being “rich” is no longer necessarily true, especially after they decided to jack the financial system to give houses away.
I think I would find it very difficult to sit through a sermon, after having gone through the financial scare of my life and listen to how we need to redistribute to backward countries that are still backward in this day and age despite aid in all forms flowing in from all directions for decades. If it hasn’t worked by now, it likely won’t; and they are the prime example of how just handing things to people doesn’t work.
Bring the thought of redistribution in foreign countries back home and you have a failed Johnson legacy. No matter how much money in pumped in to ending poverty, until the attitude is changed - nothing is changed. There will never be ‘the right people’ in charge as Robert Reich reasoned why the Soviet experiment failed. Social justice is a pipe dream. There is no ‘constant’ when trying to put people’s psyche in a mathmatical equation.