Thread:Blue in the Red Zone/@comment-681745-20150723034839/@comment-26279493-20150723190711

For now, I think I'll just leave the link. Once I've digested it a bit more, I may be able to comment.

All I could write about it now would be a first impression. My first impression is that I'm surprisingly impressed, and hopeful that Francis may be much more an ally than I had guessed. While he avoided naming neo-liberalism as an evil, he shurely attacked neo-liberal economic policy specifically, and modern social conservatism generally. Pope Francis does have one of the largest constituencies on the planet, and perhaps the ability to create a public dialog that's lacking.

We'll just have to wait and see if this can be easily dismissed by Conservatives and Corporate Media. My impression is that they have to either ignore it or deal with it, and they don't want to deal with it.