Thread:Blue in the Red Zone/@comment-681745-20150723034839/@comment-26279493-20150724223816

IDK, but I'm surely more willing to be open-minded. It's kind of the nature of real progressive-Liberals to appear much more conservative than they actually are. We do what we feel is most important first, and try to bring some changes incrementally in order to build consensus. Francis does seem willing to take on quite alot. Perhaps it's a case of first things first.

As for his influence in US and UK, that remains to be seen. Neither country is going to accept Papal authority, but both may find it difficult to totally ignore Papal opinion. 6 corporations now own 90% of mass media in US now. There are very few individuals who might be able to communicate outside of that 90%. The Pope may be one of those few.

Conservative resistance to common ownership, and denial of responsibility for the the degradation of the environment became much more difficult. Were a few more of the "great voices" of the world to concur in their opinion, it might speed positive change.