Confessions of a Solidarist
Appalled
by both Hillary and the Donald? Unimpressed by Gary and Jill? Lurking
in the folds of the internet is an offbeat alternative: the American
Solidarity Party.
Visiting the office of a colleague a few weeks ago, I noticed a new framed document on the wall. She explained that it was the platform of the American Solidarity Party, a new political formation “somewhere out there beyond the Alleghenies.”
For anyone who loves Catholic social
doctrine, the platform is a political Rembrandt. For those of us
orphaned by the major American parties, it offers a political home in
the tradition of the old Christian Democratic parties. Like the
venerable formations of Adenauer and de Gasperi, the Solidarist ideology
leans leftward on economic issues, rightward on social issues and
firmly internationalist on questions of war and peace.
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