Comments for Wading Through the Debris, Clueless at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 09:49:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-229 To M. Fragoso - your offhand comment about Malta is not only condescending but wrong. Agriculture is 2.7% of GDP. The major industries in Malta are tourism, electronics manufacturing and financial services. Not far off the US - except our banks don't need state aid. This is not just pedantry - Malta has, so far, remained Catholic in an agressively secular EU, without its economy remaining in the 1940s. Contrary to popular belief, Catholicism and the 21st century are very much compatible - Justin Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:57:19 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-226 This election was very interesting. It showed that people are not what we think they are. People are easily influenced and deceived. I could write a book about the fiction deception in our culture and its addiction. These people are passive, and will not put any effort into anything especially seeking or looking or studying or anything else. Thy only want to be fed. They want their meals fixed for them. They are not the me generation any more-they are the lazy generation. They want the sun, moon, and stars given to them-free by the others who are not lazy. Your view point in very accurate also. I agree with it. However!!! there were a considerable number who are not taken in...is that not interesting too. Please, someone, look into this. These people, I believe, turn off their TVs, read, look for truth, hold to their values, and are not afraid to stick up for what they believe in no matter what the rest of the world does (I was going to say thinks, but I do not believe they think too much-and I am not being cute.). Let us concentrate on the people with values and voted them. There really is a lot of us. We can still make a difference all along the way. We have the initiative. The others don\\\\\\\'t period. I am doing it! I started that day. Yep! we can make a difference without the elections...we got work to do...and we love to work. - Polly Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:08:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-223 Thank you for expressing so clearly the incredible confusion that has seemed to overtake others. So many people seem ready to accept a secular Messiah that they don't even care what he actually stands for. If this keeps up I don't know how much longer Americans will be able to proudly state that we are a self-governing people. - Gunnar Gundersen Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:07:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-204 I find Professor Arke's endorsement of the GOP morally repugnant on many levels, however, I find James the Least's sophmoric and precambrian mentality a greater danger to our Democratic Republic. The mere notion that the Lincoln Administration brought about an oppressive, centralized govenment is inconsistent with hitorical evidence and a specious argument, at best. Classic Neo-Confederate, Lew Rockwellism at its finest! Sorry John, The Articles of Confederation failed. - Mike Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:03:03 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-206 Any open teaching positions in Malta? On what website is the listing located? Heh. Based on your opinion above, and the reality of past events, I think the Republicans need to consider the significance of the American rhetoric of the common good if they want to win again. The ideas, which need not be new, must be communicated well. Rhetoric goes a long way. Conservatives use the sort of rhetoric that allows their opponents to \"prove\" everything they wish, when they use it at all. - Matt Peterson Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:43:41 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-205 I hope Professor Arkes is aware that the major industry in Malta is goat herding and tomato farming. - M. Fragoso Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:17:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-203 I have followed Alan Keyes. You can listen to his speeches at his website. He articulates these ideas that Mr. Arkes favors yet Mr. Keyes gets mocked by the Republican establishment. Very few are willing to openly defend Keyes and his outspoken defense of life and conservative ideas. - Joe K Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:49:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-200 I\'m astounded by Mr. Arkes' linkage of the natural law argument behind abolition and "small government." The self-same Republican Party that backed abolition also backed, both de facto and in spirit, Lincoln's campaign to destroy the states' rights system of the Founders and consolidate power in Washington. Of course, if by "small government" Mr. Arkes means a consolidated monster that is somehow constrained from growing, that's a different matter. But it's also an impossibility. - James the Least Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:45:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/wading-through-the-debris-clueless.html#comment-197 Mr. Arkes has expressed my feelings in an amazing fashion. While, possibly a little too political for many his thesis of how one can vote for someone who is so diametrically opposed to your simplest moral beliefs is absolutely on the mark. Even the young lions, such as Paul Ryan, are overlooking the need to return to the basics of the moral roots of society and the Catholic Church, especially. - John Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:17:39 +0100