MGB:_Christian Democracy has an American voice, The Center for Public Justice. It is even Calvinist, although the Kuyper variety. They frequently rerun columns by Michael Gerson. At their growth rate, we should have Chirstian Democracy by the fourth millenium.
The only way for Christian Democracy to succeed is for Social Democracy to organize into an effective party, shedding the Wall Street faction of the Democratic Party but without adopting the Green Party’s aversion to real fundraising. For this to win, Bernie Sanders or someone like him has to either leave the Democrats or win the primary in 2020 and then win the election big. Big enough so that the Republican Party is ruined enough to exile the social conservative racist faction it depends on now, forming common purpose with the exiles from the Democrats and forming what amounts a Christian Democratic Party.
Will they represent Wall Street? Only if Wall Street survives a movement toward employee ownership with official support and tax funding by the Social Democrats (Occupy Democracy!). I am betting they won’t, because coopertive socialism will include cooperative funding of mortgages, retirement and consumer credit. No one will go to the finanncial system for money that they can get for free.
The CD’s signature issuemayl be abortion, but hopefully they will pursuit it without the fraud inherent ih the pro-life movement. It may also be making sure that religious organizations are accepted providers of social services to cooperatives. It could also be more democracy IN the Church. That would be a nice change.
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