Yes,
Pope Francis is encouraging civil disobedience, leading a rebellion.
Listen closely, Francis knows he’s inciting political rebellion, an
uprising of the masses against the world’s superrich capitalists. And
yet, right-wing conservatives remain in denial, tuning out the pope’s
message, hoping he’ll just go away like the “Occupy Wall Street”
movement did.
Never. America’s narcissistic addiction to
presidential politics is dumbing down our collective brain. Warning:
Forget Bernie vs. Hillary. Forget the circus-clown-car distractions
created by Trump vs. the GOP’s Fab 15. Pope Francis is the only real
political leader that matters this year. Forget the rest. Here’s why:
Pope
Francis is not just leading a “Second American Revolution,” he is
rallying people across the Earth, middle class as well as poor, inciting
billions to rise up in a global economic revolution, one that could
suddenly sweep the planet, like the 1789 French storming the Bastille.
Unfortunately,
conservative capitalists — Big Oil, Koch billionaires, our GOP Congress
and all fossil-fuel climate-science deniers — are blind to the fact
their ideology is on the wrong side of history, that by fighting a
no-win battle they are committing suicide, self-destructing their own
ideology.
The fact is: The era of capitalism is rapidly dying, a
victim of its own success, sabotaged by greed and a loss of a moral
code. In 1776 Adam Smith’s capitalism became America’s core economic
principle. We enshrined his ideal of capitalism in our constitutional
freedoms. We prospered. America became the greatest economic superpower
in world history.
But along the way, America forgot Smith’s
original foundation was in morals, values, doing what’s right for the
common good. Instead we drifted into Ayn Rand’s narcissistic “mutant
capitalism,” as Vanguard’s founder Jack Bogle called the distortion of
Adam Smith’s principles in his classic, “The Battle for the Soul of
Capitalism.” The battle is lost.
Pope Francis, leader of the coming 21st Century American Revolution
In
the generation since the Reagan Revolution, America’s self-centered,
consumer-driven, mutant capitalism lost its moral compass, drifting:
Inequality explodes, income growth stagnates, the poor keep getting
poorer. Yet across the world, billionaires have explode from 322 in 2000
to 1,826 in 2015, with 11 trillionaire capitalist families predicted to
control the planet by 2100.
But not for much longer, as Pope
Francis’ revolution accelerates, as his relentless socialist message of
sacred rights for all people makes clear. Why? Our mutating capitalist
elite have triggered a massive backlash, a “profound human crisis, the
denial of the primacy of the human person. The worship of the ancient
golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of
money.”
An aggressive Pope Francis is on a mission to transform
the mutant ideology of today’s capitalist world with its rampant
profits-centered climate-science denialism. Fortunately, the pope will
soon confront and challenge America’s GOP Congress directly, then the
United Nations General Assembly to challenge the capitalist world’s
failure to take climate change actions. Maybe they’ll finally wake up.
Pope
Francis’ recent trip to South America revealed a clear anticapitalism,
socialist message, calling for a “structural change to a global economy
that runs counter to the plan of Jesus,” as reported in Time by
Christopher Hale. Francis warned:
“The future of humanity does
not lie solely in the hands of great leaders, the great powers and the
elites.” The future “It is fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in
their ability to organize. It is in their hands, which can guide with
humility and conviction this process of change. I am with you.” The pope
is warning all capitalists everywhere. As Jesus says in the Bible, the
poor will always be with you, but the rich may not be after the coming
revolution.
Yes folks, Pope Francis is a
revolutionary destined to end up in the history books right up there
with Lenin and Marx, Mao and Castro. He is obviously inciting
revolution, wants civil disobedience and political insurrection, he is
egging the poor into rebellion against a vastly outnumbered rich.
In
fact, Francis has become one of the world’s great revolutionary
leaders. He not only is inciting an uprising of the masses against
wealthy capitalist billionaires, he’s out in front of the emerging
global revolution, encouraging the masses, shouting battle cries, a
leader in the tradition of Washington.
So the media should stop
mistaking Francis’s congenial nature, his perpetual smile, dismissing
his true intentions. His is an aggressive call to arms, a call for a
global revolution attacking today’s out-of-control, consumer-driven
“mutant capitalism,” a call to replace capitalism with a new economic
socialism giving the poor “sacred rights” on par with the superrich.
Time’s
Hale went on to outline the four “foundations” of the pope’s coming
“revolution.” Hale covered the pope’s tour in South America in, “Pope
Francis Isn’t Holding Back — And U.S. Politicians Should Watch Out.” In
Bolivia Francis warned that global capitalism is a failure and needs a
“structural change” because it runs “counter to the plan of Jesus.” Hale
then added that “leaders of both parties might regret their invitation
to the 78-year-old Jesuit pontiff” to address a historic joint session
of Congress in two months. Five reasons make the warning quite obvious:
1. Socialism: Everyone has a sacred right to land, lodging and labor
“Pope Francis argued that everyone has a God-given right to have a job,
to own land, and to have a home.” These rights go “well beyond the
traditional social teaching of the Catholic Church, which argues for the
dignity of work, but doesn’t go as far to say that everyone has a
God-given right to have a job.” But clearly, Pope Francis says the poor
do have inalienable “sacred rights” on par with those guaranteed in the
U.S. Constitution. And clearly, Scott Walker and the GOP already deny a
similar liberal agenda of “sacred rights” to a living wage, property and
a home.
2. Humans, not capitalist profits, must be at the center of global economics
Pope
Francis message is unambiguous: “Unbridled capitalism” has become a
“subtle dictatorship,” is now the very “dung of the devil.” Ouch, that
must hurt even the stone-cold Koch ego. Francis says that capitalism’s
greedy “unfettered pursuit of money” is destroying the “common good,”
setting a stage for revolutions. The pope urged the masses to “say no to
an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money rules,” because
capitalists will “destroy Mother Earth” in order to enrich the superrich
elite. Yet another revolutionary call to battle.
3. Billions worldwide, cannot wait much longer for action
Earlier
Pope Francis’ encyclical warned that “doomsday predictions” about
climate “can no longer be met with irony, disdain” or dismissed without
action. Now, Francis is aggressively pushing world leaders and humans
everywhere to fight against all economic injustices against individuals.
The clock’s ticking loudly, time is “running out: we are not yet
tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common home”
here on Earth. Pope Francis also encourages people to start demanding,
“We want change!” Remember the 1976 movie “Network”: where an anchorman
gets listeners shouting, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this
anymore!”
4. Revolutions begin with angry citizens, not politicians or philanthropists
Time’s
Hale says the pope’s call for “structural change won’t be the result
from any one political decision.” The pope understands that politicians
rarely lead. Real change is triggered from below, by angry mobs, they
get “caught up in the storms of people’s lives,” fired up, rebel,
motivated to act, then revolutions ignite and move fast like a wildfire
on jet fuel.
5. Warning: Socialism is now a moral obligation, a commandment to obey
Admit
it, Pope Francis is clearly inciting people to rebel with his
passionate, provocative and inspirational message, which triggers
memories of Marx, yet is directly from the Gospels of Jesus: “Working
for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is
not mere philanthropy,” not just a handout from capitalist billionaires.
Instead Pope Francis shifts our focus: The socialism is now “a
moral obligation. And for Christians, the responsibility is even
greater: it is a commandment. It is about giving to the poor and to
peoples what is theirs as a sacred right.” And if we fail to do give it
freely, do not be surprised when revolutions explode across Planet
Earth.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pope-francis-leading-the-new-american-socialist-revolution-2015-07-20
