WCAT Radio The Open Door (December 15, 2017)

First, we can look at a pair of principles that follow the platform preamble. 1. Family, local communities, and voluntary associations are the first guarantors of human dignity and the cultivators of mutual care.2. We must share and protect natural resources and the environment, as held in trust for the benefit of all, present and future.Second, we can begin a reflection of Distributism, an economic resource of the Solidarity Party. Say what? For a start consider the following.Alasdair MacIntyre (2016) writes "What is amiss with capitalism is not only what it does to the unemployed and the poor, but also what it does to the rich and to better paid workers and managers. Human beings can achieve their common and their individual goods only though concerted actions that require cooperative relationships informed by the norms of natural law and, in order to achieve those goods, they must develop their powers as as rational agents. [But] capitalism not only recurrently imposes types of social relationship that violate these norms, it also miseducates and wrongly directs desire...so that for many of every social class the satisfaction of their desires and the development of their powers become incompatible. What they want is too often what they have no good reason to want." For more, why not take a look at the website of the Distributist Review?Third, we can "take the pulse" of solidarity inspired political efforts in California.