"King or chaos!"???

Let's talk some more about the latest loony left mantra "No kings!" 

In "We are nearing the end of a natural political cycle" (WWW 16/6/25), I quoted from C. Northcote Parkinson's highly recommendable Left Luggage (Houghton Mifflin, 1967). 

The author of The Law argues very persuasively that there is a natural political order of things. A nation goes from chaos -- warring tribes from which a unified nation emerges -- to monarchy, for it is the monarch, the king, who creates the nation.

Then, as the size of the aristocracy grows, the numbers of the ruled increase as well. That's simple biology. Kings and commoners all have children! As the numbers swell, the distinction between the rulers and ruled tends to get blurred, and the lower classes eventually get to share in the power. This phase we call democracy.

Focus shifts from the individual -- whether he be king or capitalist -- to the community, who expect to share not only power but wealth. The nation moves toward the theoretical equality (or mediocrity) we call socialism. Community, the common weal, the commune. Out of that philosophy comes dictatorship, Marx's "dictatorship of the proletariat".

Then what happens? Dictatorship leads to chaos, as it did in the Soviet Union and sub-Saharan Africa. For order to be restored, out of the chaos must arise... wait for it... a new king! And so the cycle repeats itself. 

We close (for today) with another quote from Left Luggage, at pp. 190-191: 

Political progress must remain a myth. It is true that a democratic society can be made more egalitarian, but this hastening of the process merely shortens the life of the democracy, making dictatorship the more imminent. 

The theory that freedom broadens down from precedent to precedent has no basis in historical example. The pursuit of democracy does not end in perfection, but in that choas from which dictatorship offers the only means of escape. No form of government can last forever, and democracy does not even, in practice, last for long.

Footnote: About that headline... "King or chaos!" was the 1935 campaign slogan of William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving prime minister of Canada. The electorate chose Mr King, and he remained PM until finally retiring in 1948. 

The democratically elected governments that followed his have become progressively more "progressive" (read: socialist) to the point where, under Emperors Trudeau, père et fils, Canada has descended into such chaos that it is now known as Canuckistan. A king is wanted!

"Communists stole our flag!" sez Pope

Maybe yesterday's post -- "a message for the Pope" seen at the Vatican (???) -- wasn't a joke after all. Like Art Linklater's kids, Francis says the darnedest things!

In an interview with Il Messaggero, the Party Pope was asked about a blog post in the Economist, which described him as a "Leninist" for his criticism of capitalism and calls for radical economic reform. Said Francis, "I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the center of the Gospel."

"Communists say that all this is communism," he said. "Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: 'but then you are Christian.'"

The Pope went on to tell Il Messaggero that his own world view is "not dissimilar" to Communist ideology. He has often attacked the global economic system as turning away from the poor and not doing enough to share wealth with those who need it most. He has criticized the wealth made from financial speculation as intolerable. And he has said speculation on commodities is a scandal that compromises the poor's access to food.

Dear Catholic readers, something is outta whack here! Has the Holy Father forgotten that Karl Marx was a self-proclaimed atheist? That is was Marx who called religion the opium of the people? Francis's astonishing ad-libs -- "In my life I have met a lot of Marxists who are good people." -- must have his predecessors spinning in their tombs!

In 1907 Saint Pius X published his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, which condemned the errors of Modernism of which Karl Marx was a leading proponent. "How far this position is removed from that of Catholic teaching!", wrote the sainted pope. This was followed, in 1910, with The Oath Against Modernism, which was required to be sworn by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.

42 years after Pascendi, by which time Communist governments had enslaved Russia, eastern Europe and China, Pope Pius XII issued the Decree against Communism, which excommunicates all Catholics collaborating with Communists. Pope John XXIII confirmed the decree in 1962. Pope Francis probably never read Pascendi or took the Oath Against Modernism, but surely he must be aware of the Decree!

What we see here is yet another example of the infiltration into the highest levels of the church of Communists and Freemasons. The writer of the Traditio website points out that Francis is a product of the "new" Society of Jesus (Jesuits). With the "opening up" of the Church by Vatican II, many Latin American Jesuits decided it was OK to defy the Decree, and embraced Communism and so-called "liberation theology".

Well-known traditional Catholic author Malachi Martin, who was a former Jesuit, wrote in his book, The Jesuits (1988), about how the Modernists and Communists took over the order and turned it into a society of Communist sympathizers. Pope Francis was a committed member of that society.

Reflecting on the aftermath of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI said "the smoke of Satan has entered the Church". Now it seems the smoke has wafted all the way to the top.