Links for 11/19/18

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/links-111918 MGB:
It seems that at least half the older voters wanted the government's hands off their Medicare - the government being the Republicans. The remarkable thing about this election is that the younger voters are solidly Democratic, which is a generational change that dooms the GOP.

It is not NARAL that swings the election. They are a rather small organization, even with grass roots support. It is the NEA which has sway in the Democratic Party, which is why the Church does not let teacher's organize (as if joining the union suddenly makes one pro-choice). Again, the Church goes for appearance over reality.

Pelosi is unchallenged. Until someone runs against her, say a pro-life Democrat, the opposition to her is largely theoretical. I suspect that this particular faction wishes to stay hidden. The Bernie forces need to wait their turn. The only possible option, and only if Pence is dead to rights in the Mueller probe, is Hillary Clinton. Of course, if that is the case, Trump and Pence may both resign before the new session, making Ryan the President. Clinton or Sanders would make the GOP squirm, but there will be no pro-life hero.

In both cases, the bailout and the hurricanes, it is an incompetent Governor that is the problem.

Corporate structures would be good for the Church - at the parish and diocesan levels. The days of episcopal lordship have passed (as well as the influence of the sheriff as local lordling in certain southern states). Capitalism is not objectionable because of markets, but because it is authoritarian. Letting the economic libertarians take over would be Animal Farm.

I could think of worse things than a Wuerl - Cupich plan, although the plan must be for the whole Church, not just the USCCB, and it should involve selling some paintings to capitalists.

On Silk, there seem to be many ways to be born again. Maybe they should ask about infant baptism or authoritarianism - although the latter may move Catholics into the evangelical column. I am not sure that the religious estimate even matters anymore. Only the hardest core Southern Baptists are anti-Catholic, save for pro-choice NEA members who see funding parochial schools as union busting, which it probably is.