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An update from Thomas for the end of Advent and the beginning of Christmas. God bless you all!

Links

Stream Link for the Ecological Embertide at 6pm on Friday

Embertide Announcement Flyer

Spiritual Practices for the Winter Embertide 

Patris Corde recording on Patreon

Holy Family Catholic Worker donation link

Episode #13 - Fr. Alek Schrenk on the Embertides

Outro from Sufjan Stevens Christmas Collection (a favourite of Elliot's)

Thomas and Luke get riled up by the Good Word of the Lord. It turns out that the "rigid and backwards" decrees of the Mosaic Law aren't so irrelevant to the modern world after all...

 

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An audio recording of Christopher Dawson's essay "Catholicism and Bourgeois Mind".

The question of the bourgeois involves a real issue which Christians cannot afford to shirk. For it is difficult to deny that there is a fundamental disharmony between bourgeois and Christian civilization and between the mind of the bourgeois and the mind of Christ...

Full text of the essay here.

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To and from all friends of Tradistae: happy thanksgiving!

Glory be to God, giver of all good things.

Thomas interviews Marc Barnes about his work at New Polity, the importance of Andrew Jones' research towards the revival of integralism, and the demands which Catholic Social Teaching makes upon the nations of the earth. We discuss escaping the ideologies of modernity, on both the right and the left, with a radical Catholic political theology.

Go subscribe to New Polity on Twitter, youtube, and their podcast.

You can read many excellent articles over at newpolity.com and purchase their print magazine at newpolity.com/magazine!

Thomas does a class analysis that breaks down the coalitions of the duopoly in the USA, using evidence from the donor and voter bases of the 2020 presidential election. 

Links: 

GOP:

Old Industry (oil, coal, manufacturing and extractives in general)

Military/Police

Small Business

Manual Laborers

DEM:

New Industry (Big Tech)

Artists/Creatives

Big Business (hedge funds, banks, Amazon, Walmart, etc)

Professionals/Managers

Bloomberg Breakdown of Donors: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-election-trump-biden-donors/   

Top Biden Campaign Donors: https://www.investopedia.com/top-donors-to-biden-2020-campaign-5080324 

Top Trump Capaign Donors: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/033116/top-10-corporate-contributors-trump-campaign.asp 

Absolutely Vapid and Insidious Tweets from Either Side of the Aisle: 

The "Progressive" Democrats: https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1325121222615527424?s=20 

The "Populist" Republicans: https://twitter.com/tradtom/status/1325146385226690560?s=20 

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P.S.

Another breakdown of voters, which confirms this analysis, which came out after I recorded this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-republicans-economy.html

Thomas interviews Amar Patel, Vice Presidential Candidate on the 2020 Solidarity Ticket, about his campaign. We discuss the "atomization" and loneliness caused by the liberalism of the duopoly, which has broken down communities, churches, and families. Finally, we talk about an important study which shows that a very large number of American voters are economically progressive and socially conservative. 

LINKS:

Study on American Voters: "Political Divisions in 2016 and Beyond"

Support the Carroll/Patel 2020 Ticket: https://briancarroll.life/

Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/ 

Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial 

RELATED EPISODES:

Inside Baseball at the Solidarity Stadium

Elections and the Two-Party System

Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll

Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent

James and Thomas discuss the brief history of the American Solidarity Party, with all its up and downs, and why you should get involved to help the only distributist political party in the U.S. to thrive.

The full episode can be found on Patron (LINK)

LINKS:

Support the Carroll/Patel 2020 Ticket: https://briancarroll.life/

Join the American Solidarity Party: https://solidarity-party.org/ 

Fraternize in the ASP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/americansolidaritypartyunofficial 

RELATED EPISODES:

Elections and the Two-Party System

Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll

Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent

Luke and Tom discuss the electoral system of the USA: it turns out that a supposedly representational government is actually run by a one-party state cleverly divided into two parties. We talk about the history of national democracies, Deneen's book on liberalism, the structure of the Two-Winged One-Party State which rules the U.S.A., and the ways in which "democracy" is used to keep the wheels of power turning. 

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Go read Fratelli Tutti by Pope Francis! (LINK)

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Related podcast episodes:

Interview with third-party Solidarity Candidate Brian Carroll

Discussing the liberal media and Manufactured Consent

Thomas interviews Erik Bootsma, a classically trained architect, about the new urbanism and the Strong Towns Movement.

Links:

Erik Bootsma's (@ErikBootsma) Website: bootsmadesign.com

The Parish Village Project

The Strong Towns Movement