True Colors

Pope Francis has come out of the closet ... finally revealing that underneath all that white silk and ecru satin his true color is red. His "holiness" is on a trip to the radical-left countries of South America (Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador) and, in a speech in Bolivia, he let loose with both papal barrels ... calling global capitalism "the dung of the devil" and said that it is a "subtle dictatorship ... that enslaves men and women" ... see: New York Times Story/ Wow! Pretty heavy stuff from a man who lives in a wealth-filled castle surrounded by supplicants whose only purpose is to serve his slightest whim. And this is even heavier hypocrisy when this man can look around him in South America and see what communism invariably brings to its followers ... abject poverty and a loss of their basic freedoms.

Can this man not see what communism has produced? If he were to take just a few moments to understand how China's embracing even the wisps of capitalism has changed this country from a bunch of bypassed beggars into a nation of potentially untold wealth. If capitalism is the engine of wealth creation, then its opposite, communism, is the engine of penury which constantly enslaves people ... causing them only to envy the wealth next door wrought by capitalism. That is, except for the communist party elites who are not a subtle but a true dictatorship ... yet still enjoying what little wealth that they can suck out of their oppressed subjects. It is not capitalism that destroys countries, it is that perennial Utopian dream of pure communism ... which somehow is never achieved ... but still, after untold failures, it is this demagogic carrot that propels poltroons to power.

Are the downtrodden of Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador risking life and limb to emigrate to communist Argentina? I don't think so! No, in their naivete, they are striving to find a home in the capitalist United States. This should tell the pontiff something ... if he were only to listen.