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Edmontonensis wrote:

I vacillate between pure free market economic social libertarianism being the best form of government, and recognizing the ills of an unchecked plutocracy that is keeping the rest of us from being able to afford bread and medicine. Depends on how good my most recent paycheque was ;)

The core tenants that remain the same are support for some manner of monarchy supported by Catholic political theory. As a relic of pre-“enlightenment” philosophy this is a position that wins few friends in the current era.

I can sympathise with that, even during my long years as a socialist I always had a Ron Paul moment whenever being charged VAT (e.g. on Steam games) lol

Nowadays, I subscribe to some sort of mixture of Georgism and Austrian economics whilst trying to accommodate my social democratic instincts (i.e. try and enable the poor to just buy what they need health and education-wise)

Your comments on monarchy are interesting, is monarchy required/recommended by Catholic political theory? I like the monarchy in a sort of Glorious Revolution sense that it acts as a dignified backbone to the nitty-gritty of Parliamentary government. If Parliament were to lose all sense and try and pass a King Herod's law, I feel like I'd approve of the monarch withholding assent from Parliament, for example.