Catholic left should avoid becoming explicitly partisan: Distinctly Catholic: The Catholic left should not become closely tied to any one political party for a variety of reasons.
MGB: Catholicism should never be used to baptize neo-liberalism in the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, however the Democratic Party won't survive if it remains identified with that wing, which won elections because it got funding. It will never dominate the far left wing of the Democrats, but the Christian Left can become part of it, whether it is a separate party or part of the larger coalition. The Catholic Left should not only be a part of the far left equation, but should also be the yeast for change in the Church itself. It must be in the vanguard when resisting the anti-abortion wing of the USCCB, showing the impossibility of overturning Roe or gay marriage because doing either would baptize rule of the Catholic Right Mob. It must lead the movement toward ordaining women deacons and later priests and in removing control of Church property and institutions from the clergy, for example Bishop Olmsted, giving it to the laity.
The secular far left, the Sanders Democratic Socialists, have a penchant for the atheism of Marx, although the Christian Left is still tolerated. We must be trusted as well, bringing forth a vision where a libertarian democratic socialist cooperative might fund its own school in lieu of taxes and that the school might even be Catholic if the cooperative decides its a good idea. The same is true for using Catholic Health facilities for medical care. Government will eventually fade away, but education and health care will not and the Church can help with that - but not the Church we have now. Catholic Social Thought is an asset to the movement and is foundational on living wages (to each according to their need). It is a natural fit, but only if it plays nice with the other children, especially the girls. It must be Radically Catholic, not just Distinctly Catholic. No having our cake and eating it to.
The question is, how do we succeed at this? We Occupy Capitalism. That means we start with cooperatives and, for a fee, help them become more democratically socialist and thereby successful Transforming a few dozen smaller firms gives us bigger firms, say the unionized ones and then the non union ones. With that kind of economic base, the GOP is reduced to its Alt-right troglodytes and fundraising on the radical left will no longer be an issue.
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