The blockquote below [in brown text ] is from Chris Hedges’ new book The Death of the Liberal Class (2010), pgs 156 & 157, which pretty much explains the political position where we find Loaves & Fishes these days, with its creation and promotion of SafeGround after indoctrination techniques used on [or against , as I would say] homeless people who have come to use L&F’s services. And, it explains where Loaves & Fishes is with respect to its unflagging rootedness in the Catholic Workers Movement. [An area at Loaves & Fishes is named after CW founder Dorothy Day.] Hedges’ (and L&F’s) values relate to communitarian liberty which necessarily advances a huge and invasive government presence to impose a supposedly-just society. They want to “kindle outrage” to go backward to a system that has proved over and over and over again THAT IT DOESN’T WORK. In the Twentieth Century there was massive experimentation with the idea of an invasive government presence. It did...
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