Some deeper thinking on Election ’08

…comes from the other side of the world.

It is in the interests of political parties and candidates to know what the public wants. So it comes back to us: we are the public. What do we want? More importantly, what are our wants based on?

The American media are largely ignoring these fundamental questions. This is a piece for Catholic voters, and since that ‘bloc’ figures so prominently into the American presidential elections, this is good insight into what constitutes the morally informed vote.

Elections are being held in a number of countries. But New Zealand found a good bellwether in Church teachings about true human rights based on fundamental dignity that is not conferred by government, but must be upheld by it. A reference against which we should measure how we’re doing right about now in the US presidential race.