Finally, I am speaking as a political conservative to political conservatives. I don’t pretend to make a case to Catholics of a statist bent, to those who — whether or not they think their faith requires it — shade to the left on welfare policy, immigration, national defense, or taxation, or to those who seek solutions to the nation’s ills primarily in coercion by the political class rather than meritorious private enterprise. Their best choice is someone else.- Todd Aglialoro, InsideCatholic (formerly Crisis Magazine)
I’m glad he got that out of the way. Mr. Aglialoro never does articulate what rightest views or non-statist views on immigration, national defense, and taxation are. If he is like most self-described political conservatives the non-statists solution to immigration is to vastly empower ICE, turn the driver’s license into an internal passport, and make employers agents of the State who report immigration violators. Maybe he isn’t quite in that class of anti-Statist wanting to construct a wall on our Southern border.
And then we have the non-liberal views of national defense. Continuing from the non-statist angle, Romney supports indefinitely detaining men without trial. Those men he would call terrorists, but of course no one wishes to go to the trouble of establishing that in a court of law. Simple decree from the President can justify indefinite detention. Call that plank 1 of the anti-Statist national defense. Let’s move onto to plank 2, Mitt’s views on Iran. “This is a nation where the genocidal inclination is really frightening and having a nation of this nature develop nuclear weaponry is unacceptable to this country and to the Middle East.” A more extended quotation:
This Partnership would assemble the resources of all the nations of the world to work to assure that Islamic states that are threatened with violent jihad have public schools that are not Wahhabi madrases; that they have micro credit and banking, the rule of law, human rights, basic healthcare, and competitive economic practices.
You hear that. He wants to ensure healthcare for the whole world! Maybe I ought to change my mind about the guy.
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