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They're gonna have mostly those evil, dirty white people, you know, the white devil honkies, you know. Yeah, mostly them. But I guess a few, like, slightly dusky people will get caught up, too. They're gonna have a different relationship to private property. Namely, they're not gonna have it. We're gonna take it from them. We're gonna transition. We're not just gonna transition your little boy into a little girl. We're gonna do that too. But we're gonna transition your property, what you consider to be like your property. We're gonna transition that into my property. I'm gonna have it now. Especially if you're a white devil. Cause we hate you white people. Even though she's a white devil too, but she especially hates you, the white devil. She posted on some social media platform. Thanks to Libs of TikTok for finding this one, she types this one out. She goes, private property, including and kind of especially all caps. Homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building public policy. I love this too. Even that millennial lib way that like, you know, like kind of, I mean, kind of especially. You can't say kind of especially. Especially gives emphasis for the particular thing you're talking about and kind of creates ambiguity. The people running New York can't speak English. And it's not just because they're Arabs or whatever, Pakistanis. It's not that the Pakistanis probably speak English better than the white liberal ladies millennials who say kind of especially. But how are we to think of private property? Because there is the modern right wing sort of right liberal ideological view, there is the communist view that Mamdani and this lady are espousing. But even though I'm certainly much more on the right than I ever entertain ideas on the left, I also eschew aspects of modern right wing ideology, you know, because I don't like. I don't really like modern stuff and liberal stuff and ideology. So what is the Christian view? What's the conservative view? What's the traditional view that we've held of private property? For that we turn to our friend John Paul ii. John Paul II writes in the midst of the Cold War, as Pope, he writes an encyclical called Centesimus Annum. Centesimus Annum, which is a reflection on Rerum Novarum, which is encyclical by Pope Leo xiii, predecessor to Pope Leo xiv. Pope Leo xiii, who is writing during the rise of socialism and industrial capitalism and all of this massive economic upheaval where look, socialism, communism is really, really bad. But there are some issues with capitalism too. If capitalism is not bounded by a moral order and order toward the flourish. So what do we think? What are we supposed to think? And JP2, I think puts it very well, says the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. It's about what a human is. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socioeconomic mechanism. It just crushes the individual person and says, you are undifferentiated flesh only serving the Borg. That's what Mamdani and this lady are talking about. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears. The very subject whose decisions build the social order. They're saying, yeah, Social order is good. But in order to have a social order, you have to have people making moral decisions. And if you deny the individual and you deny any agency, and you deny that he's a moral actor, you actually completely undermine the social order. It's not that socialism is bad because it acknowledges community. Socialism is bad because it actually undermines community by undermining the individual. The individual and community do not have to be at odds. The modern ideological view that it's the individual or the collective, you have to pick one. Both of those ideologies are wrong. Because a true understanding of politics recognizes that the individual and the community have to go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. JP2 goes on only a little bit more. From this mistaken conception of the person, there arise both a distortion of the law which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and an opposition to private property. So JP2 is just seeing this. He's seeing the Mamdani administration come down the pike decades in the future. Any person who is deprived of something he can call his own and of the possibility of earning a living through his own initiative, comes to depend on the social machine and on those who control it. That's what this is about. This is about Mamdani and his cronies crushing the individual by pretending to offer him something so that he can gain control over him. This makes it much more difficult for him to recognize his dignity as a person and hinders progress toward the building up of an authentic human community, even that dignity of the person. So when communism and socialism expand, you see a reduced dignity of the person. Now this can happen with capitalism that's unbridled from moral order too, or unbound by moral order. But you especially see it with socialism and communism. A degradation of the person, an undermining of the family, an undermining of the moral order, an expansion of vice and sin, an expansion of euthanasia. You get socialist healthcare, next thing you're gonna get is abortion and euthanasia, so called assisted suicide. You don't really get a ton of assisted suicide in the less socialistic healthcare systems. Why? Because the socialist system degrades the human person, undermines the dignity of the human person and hinders progress. JP2 writes toward the building up of an authentic human community. The problem with collectivism is not that the people are all together doing stuff that's good for all of them. The problem with collectivism is that they're not. The problem with collectivism is that it is a fake, contrived, artificial community. Based on the breaking down of organic real community into the individual. This is how fascism works. Fascism is helpful here. Even though fascism is different from communism and socialism. Fascism is a helpful. It's a helpful way into understanding how all of these ideologies work. Because fascism has the symbol of the bundle of sticks bound up together, the fasces. And so what is expressed by that symbol is that in order to create this collectivist state, you have to first break down all the natural community so that once everyone's an alienated individual, they're much more easy to control, to manipulate, to bound up. And then you can bound them up into this contrived community. So what are we supposed to do? Very briefly, JP2 channeling Pope Leo XIII says, in contrast from the Christian vision of the human person, there necessarily follows a correct picture of society. According to Rerum Navarre and the whole social doctrine of the Church, the social nature of man is not completely fulfilled in the state, but is realized in various intermediary groups, beginning with the family, and including economic, social, political and cultural groups which stem from human nature itself and have their own autonomy. They have their own kind of liberty, their own kind of exalted liberty, always with a view to the common good. This is what I've called the subjectivity of society, which, together with the subjectivity of the individual, was canceled out by, quote, real socialism. This is the key, and it's a warning against ideologies that purport to be on the right as well as ideologies from the left, like you see with Mamdani. Any ideology that tells you that the individual is contrary to the community is going to be wrong. Any ideology that tells you that material flourishing, that private property is contrary to the common good, is gonna be wrong. Those ideologies are getting some wrong whether you see them on the left or on the right. The real deal, the real stuff, the stuff that the Church, coincidentally, maybe not merely coincidentally, has taught for a very long time, the real stuff recognizes all of these goods and puts them together into an organic whole, or even sees them together as an organic whole. Okay, now, speaking of welfare, you have heard from some of your friends on the left that, you know, immigrants are actually good for the economy, and immigrants actually use welfare at lower rates than an population.
