Posted on 05/29/2019 4:03:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
Populist parties are celebrating major victories in this weekend's European Parliament elections but Pope Francis is pushing back against their quest for national sovereignty.
Patriotic parties in France, Italy, Poland, Hungary and the United Kingdom are reveling in the groundswell that is sweeping into power candidates who are uniting against the European Union's attempts to control economic, moral and migration policies within each nation's sovereign borders.
Globalists like Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE), are clear in their desire to take away national sovereignty in order to build Europe into an empire.
Verhofstadt told CNN on May 21, "The world is developing into one not of nation states, but of empires. China is an empire. India is an empire. The U.S. is an empire. We need to create a European Union that is capable of defending our interests."
On Monday, following the landmark European Parliament elections, Pope Francis used his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees to push back against the populist movement:
The signs of meanness we see around us heighten our fear of 'the other,' the unknown, the marginalized, the foreigner. It is not just about them, but about all of us, and about the present and future of the human family. The problem is when they condition our way of thinking and acting to the point of making us intolerant, closed and perhaps even — without realizing it — racist. Today's world is increasingly becoming more elitist and cruel towards the excluded.
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During his address that mentions migrants more than 20 times, the Pope admits, "It is not just about migrants."
The populist movement would agree that forced migration is but one problem with a loss of national sovereignty. Other issues include the EU trying to dictate policies affecting more than just local economies and morality. An example of the latter was an LGBT demonstration in Gdansk, Poland on Saturday before the elections. Political scientist Marcin Palade said he believes the anti-moral march pushed conservative Polish voters to reject the globalist push for lowering moral standards.
The chairman of Poland's conservative Law and Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, on Wednesday decried attempts by globalists to force Polish people into accepting gender ideology and alternative sexual lifestyles for school children.
"We are dealing with a direct attack on the family and children … the sexualization of children, that entire LGBT movement, gender," said Kaczyński at a conference leading up to the European Parliament's elections.
"These ideologies, philosophies, all of this is imported, these are not internal Polish mechanisms," added Kaczyński. "They are a threat to Polish identity, to our nation, to its existence and thus to the Polish state."
Pope Francis, however, is warning against the populist movement with its emphasis on national sovereignty.
"The most economically advanced societies are witnessing a growing trend towards extreme individualism which, combined with a utilitarian mentality and reinforced by the media, is producing a 'globalization of indifference,'" said the Pope during his Monday address.
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Yes, that’s why the immigrants rape the locals, because the locals are so intolerant.
Pope Francis - Tear Down That Vatican Wall...
This terminology comes directly from the Communist existentialist philospher Jean-Paul Sartre and deconstructionists like Jacques Lacan who borrowed it from him. It is yet another illustration of how Francis's thinking comes from Marxism, not Catholic tradition.
It’s interesting. At what point does it become clear to Pope Francis that he’s spitting in the wind? Clearly, Europe’s Catholics couldn’t care less about his political opinions. Perhaps he’s just content to be chaplain for the Soros/leftist elite (because that’s more or less all he is at this point), but in his vanity, and surrounded by sycophants, he likely believes that he’s an opinion maker and moral authority who changes minds. When, if ever, does it become clear to him that he’s been tuned out?
You’re absolutely right. His analysis of virtually every situation is textbook Marxism. He assumes that anyone who opposes him is doing it for economic reasons, i.e., they’ve been paid. He also sees everything in terms of class struggle, i.e., “the poor” vs “the rich” in a zero-sum game, totally ignoring the reality that free-market economics can benefit everyone. He’s as much as said the any opposition to him is a function of his affinity for “the poor.” It’s self-serving, idiotic and just plain wrong, but that’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
We are right. Pope-a-dope is wrong.
signs of meanness
I think Francis already realizes it. He didn't release his letter on migrants until May 27, 2019, one day after the European elections even though "according to the Vatican’s Arabic, German, and original English translations, the document was signed on April 30, 2019.".
Pope Francis releases document about ‘meanness’ to migrants to coincide with EU elections
Personally, I think Francis feared a timely release of his letter would influence most God-fearing christians in Europe to vote against anything he was recommending.
Step down, Bergoglio.
Resign Francis!
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