“The solution is not to empower corrupt, elite-saturated government further”
You’re right...but that’s already happened. America has become fascist through three kissing cousins...big government, big business, and big unions.
grania is right also...without somehow taming an unbridled ferocious capitalism, we will and are falling into the same servile state that happened in Europe some 200 years ago. Only difference there...they chose an evil just as bad ...Socialism.
You should read Hilaire Belloc “The Servile State” if you want to understand this pope.
Beats me why people say we have an unbridled capitalism. We have growing socialism, not unbridled capitalism.
Didn't you notice the Gov't takeover of one sixth of the economy? How about the hundreds of crippling EPA regulations which keep energy companies from dealing freely on the market. The massive Gov't subsidies for green energy which is a direct contradiction to free markets?
Meanwhile as the free markets are strangled by Obama more jobs are lost and people thrown into economic turmoil. The opposite of what you say is true. We need to UNBRIDLE capitalism, not BRIDLE it so the poor have the ability to work, gain a sense of self worth, and ease their own misery.