Dear Readers,
May I direct your attention to new content on my website. Those of you who enjoyed the Bergoglio Dossier will want to check out this new page . . .
In it, I expose all the key reasons to oppose the forthcoming Donald Trump Administration 2.0. I do so without relying on cheap leftist propaganda or nonsense. Judge for yourself and enjoy.
Deus Vult!
-Chris Munier
Catholics Aren't Zombies! 
Terrific post, Chris. I agree; this is exactly why I did not fall for the lesser-of-two-evils argument as did ALL of my Trad friends. I would make only one correction to your post: Trump’s first wife Ivana is not still alive; she died in July 2022 from injuries sustained in a fall.
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Terrific post, Chris. I agree; this is exactly why I did not fall for the lesser-of-two-evils argument as did ALL of my Trad friends. I would make only one correction to your post: Trump’s first wife Ivana is not still alive; she died in July 2022 from injuries sustained in a fall.
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Thanks for the correction on that, Elizanna. I had completely forgotten she died two years ago. I’m going to tweak that part in just a moment. I appreciate your feedback and readership.
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You’re welcome. Did you know that she was actually married once before Trump to a guy named Alfred Winklemayr? He was a ski instructor that she married to get out of Czechoslovakia. The 1971 so-called “cold war marriage” was reportedly never consummated and she got an absentee divorce in 1973, so I’m not sure if it counts.
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Wow, no, I didn’t, and that’s something else. It’s incredible to see how many divorces these celebrity families manage to incur. Now, if I REALLY wanted to anger “conservative Catholics,” I could do a quick blurb on how many divorces the Reagan family cranked out over several decades. It’s tough to find even one of them that hasn’t had one.
This tragic state of modern marriages should be evidence enough never to trust any outspoken, charismatic people any more. They’re anti-life, anti-family (and therefore, anti-civilization) disasters.
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Indeed. We have come a long way (and not in a good way for sure) since the days when Nelson Rockefeller failed to get the 1964 Republican nomination for the presidency primarily because he was a divorced man married to a divorced woman. Now? Nobody gives a damn!
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Chris,
NAFTA and GATT were both free trade agreements that removed tariffs and trade barriers. The passage of which resulted in the destruction of American manufacturing. Passed by Bill Clinton yes, but also by a majority Republican Congress.
Respectfully,
John
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Meaning specifically the passage of NAFTA in 1993. GATT has been an ongoing free trade agreement that has been renegotiated multiple times since 1947.
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Chris,
NAFTA and GATT were both free trade agreements that removed tariffs and trade barriers. The passage of which resulted in the destruction of American manufacturing. Passed by Bill Clinton yes, but also by a majority Republican Congress.
Respectfully,
John
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That’s only if you consider those legislative acts at their face value.
What they really did was create an unholy alliance between state and big businesses (see: crooked ones). It’s why we now have all these “industrial complexes,” where only a few powerful players can compete, at the expense of smaller businesses. So, while they did destroy manufacturing, as you correctly say, they were anything but “free trade” mechanisms.
This was how the Pure Food & Drug Act and all that “trust busting” nonsense worked as well. They introduce a myriad of stipulations and rules into economic activity, ruining any chance for competition against large firms.
Both Trump and Clinton actively support this way of regulating economies.
If you’d like more on this topic, here’s a quick article on the fascism of NAFTA: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/03/gary-north/nafta-fascist/.
There are many other articles like that, though. NAFTA, GATT, and every other modern regulatory program (at least after the Lochner Era) has killed free trade and market economics.
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Chris,
I’ve read NAFTA in its entirety in the early 90’s, it is certainly bureaucratic legalese much like most agreements between nations, fascist is a bit of a stretch. It does allow goods to cross the borders from businesses large and small. Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians like Lew Rockwell and his ilk aren’t what I’d call a Catholic worldview.
Respectfully,
John
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Chris,
I’ve read NAFTA in its entirety in the early 90’s, it is certainly bureaucratic legalese much like most agreements between nations, fascist is a bit of a stretch. It does allow goods to cross the borders from businesses large and small. Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians like Lew Rockwell and his ilk aren’t what I’d call a Catholic worldview.
Respectfully,
John
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If there was no regulation or regulatory body for “free trade”, it still would not work out for the small business or the little guy in America. There are economic forces at work that have caused a major portion of this. Wages are simply lower in China, Mexico and Canada. The major employers that were able to move their manufacturing centers were large corporations. People in America worked for those companies. The open border version of “free trade” suggested by Mr. Gary North would still result in American manufacturing fleeing North, South or overseas. I don’t care for NAFTA any more than I care for the tariff laws that preceded it, but at least under what came before we were still making stuff in the US.
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Meaning specifically the passage of NAFTA. GATT is older more complicated and has more legislation involved.
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