The Catholic church has been no less a consistent source of reactionary politics — it is historically the central seat of Western counter-revolutionary politics. So the centre-right continental reformed traditions have always been politically sympatico with their own Christian Democratic third-way doctrines where they try to inject compa…
The Catholic church has been no less a consistent source of reactionary politics — it is historically the central seat of Western counter-revolutionary politics. So the centre-right continental reformed traditions have always been politically sympatico with their own Christian Democratic third-way doctrines where they try to inject compassion into capitalist market economies while still being totally pro-aristocracy, pro-oligarchy, and usually fairly racist, anti-feminist, etc. It was this centre-right that went into coalition with national conservatives in Germany and opened the door to Hitler and then went right along with him. This is what's next up, in a rather different world reality, as Germany and other European nations can't go on repressing their "populists" (persistent votes for nationalist right parties) forever.
So, consider the historic lessons a significant argument against trying the same things with religious centre-right/third way efforts. What is so bad about the actual left or a totally off-spectrum position?
The Catholic church has been no less a consistent source of reactionary politics — it is historically the central seat of Western counter-revolutionary politics. So the centre-right continental reformed traditions have always been politically sympatico with their own Christian Democratic third-way doctrines where they try to inject compassion into capitalist market economies while still being totally pro-aristocracy, pro-oligarchy, and usually fairly racist, anti-feminist, etc. It was this centre-right that went into coalition with national conservatives in Germany and opened the door to Hitler and then went right along with him. This is what's next up, in a rather different world reality, as Germany and other European nations can't go on repressing their "populists" (persistent votes for nationalist right parties) forever.
So, consider the historic lessons a significant argument against trying the same things with religious centre-right/third way efforts. What is so bad about the actual left or a totally off-spectrum position?