Links for 3/26/19

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The problem with Ascension is not a particular person. It is the CEO culture, particularly when grafted onto the Church. CEO culture is self-seeking. They create a crisis to fix it and justify their greed.

Trump is a lightning rod for reactionaries. There is no room in it for thoughtful conservatism, although they are merely different in structure, mot in substance. The former merely adopts overt racism as a norm.

Christ teaches the danger of self-reliance in all of his parables about the danger of wealth. Mutualism is the heart of Catholic Social Teaching.

While math has its own beauty, it is not Bach. This reminds me of a MASH episode when Radar tries to date one of the nurses.
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Weigel is using deductive reasoning to find fact in real life. That is simply stupid, both for solving crime and natural law on sexuality. In the Church, It puts piety before knowledge. Stupidity. Weigel, like all stupid people, is best ignored. Deduction only worked for Sherlock Holmes (although Doyle seemed to describe induction for his character).
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The endorse Trumpism because endorsing Republicans is essential to the pro-life agenda, even a faux pro-lifer like Trump. See comment above about stupid people and accompanying video.

Trump is destroying the GOP. This will force the Dems to split between Clintonian self-reliance and Sanders social democracy (not real socialism, which is about non-CEO management, not politics).

New York was all about political rewards. It changed no law. It is not the place of the states to do so, either way.

Humans naturally designate things as good and evil. It is part of our social nature. Aquinas taught that attraction to the ultimate Good is part of our souls, although the soul us more electro-chemical in this life, although such attraction may indeed be part if our social evolution. See how Helen Keller viewed reality before and after she gained language. See comments above on deductive reasoning. If there is truly human life after death, it is unknable to us except by belief in the risen Jesus. Inductive reasoning.

Extending the franchise and dealing with non-majorities has nothing to do with the Electoral College. The founders actually thought that there would be no partisanship (deductive reasoning again) and that the House would really select the President each time with one vote per state. This magnifies the absurdity of the Electoral College, which is an essential outgrowth if having a Senate. The Senate was created so the Congress would retain elements if the Articles if Confederation. It was conservatism in action.