The Republican Party is horrible. The The Senate Republicans are so far removed from having any real trace of subsidiarity to the point that any mere whiff of it is now a complete fantasy. Simultaneous to that, the last two Presidential nominees were social moderates and the RNC thinks they lost because the elections because
"normal" Americans don't care about that nonsense.
I know, I know. The public nudity thing is easy blog hyperbole but see, even in SF and the rest of the country as well,
people don't want their neighbors' sexual hang-ups forced on them. Americans do care about social issues. They just can't stomach the hypocrisy of using beatitudes as a wedge against beatitudes.
This guy in a Shea combox summarizes it well.
"the large core value of modern conservativsm and GOP politics seems to
be a sort of “every man for himself” social Darwinism. As an orthodox
Catholic, I cannot support that. On the other hand, what ought to be
the core value of liberalism (“we’re all in this together”) very much
fits with orthodox Catholicism — except that nearly all modern liberals
have tossed this out the window. If every citizen has an inherent value
that must be defended, one could never justify abortion."
