A threat to the 1%? Are the attacks on the Pope Coordinated?

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97. The physical fundamentals are changing

...and putting issues like the environment front and center. The late-20th century realpolitic is almost entirely gone now. This makes the progressive message all that more meaningful, however, because conservatives can't hide behind notions of "relative poverty" (poor people aren't all that poor in absolute terms just because 1% wealth is in the ionosphere).

Political economies, whether left or right-leaning, can't honestly act as if the sky is the limit for economic activity and wealth accumulation (IOW, the neoliberal consensus about 'rising tide raising all boats' is dead). The alternatives now are either to go medieval, or be humane and egalitarian and efficient.

(BTW, its easy to see the medievalists have their backs up against the wall and dwindling in numbers, and there's no going back to Uncle Ronnie's formula this time.)

The interesting thing about Latin America is that its not very populous... those old reactions toward birth control were understandable. More than a generation later, however, and Latin Americans are leaving the Catholic Church in droves. The women there live under center-left governments AND they want their career prospects now; they will go where there is less misogyny and (see USA examples) there is no separating the bedroom from the boardroom on that matter.