tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post5258699583790716566..comments2023-12-14T20:02:51.470-06:00Comments on The Heavy Anglophile Orthodox: Dude, Patriarch Kirill completely slays! He even has a Viking beard!Matthew Franklin Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15233216128641267240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post-4167876346562362142015-08-11T11:31:18.495-05:002015-08-11T11:31:18.495-05:00Hello, Matthew! Welcome to my blog, and thank you ...Hello, Matthew! Welcome to my blog, and thank you for the comment!<br /><br />I'm ambivalent about Bernie Sanders. I do indeed like his economic policies and proposals, and he makes noise about all the right issues facing America's working class. What gives me pause, though, is his rather uncritical approach to America's current foreign policy initiatives, and of late I've tended to be more concerned with those.<br /><br />To be honest, I tend to favour Jim Webb, who (like Bernie) also has a fairly left-wing populist approach to economics, but also has a more clearly-articulated realist approach to foreign policy - one that isn't dominated either by trade interests or by the tired sanctimonies of neoconservatism and liberal interventionism.<br /><br />Thanks for the link, and sorry it took me so long to get back to your comment! Again, welcome to the blog!<br /><br />- MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post-17982043166536302652015-07-15T23:26:52.107-05:002015-07-15T23:26:52.107-05:00So, Matt, are you going to vote for Bernie Sanders...So, Matt, are you going to vote for Bernie Sanders? It's intriguing to find another Orthodox Matt in the USA who shares my heavy faith and isn't afraid of socialism. We are oddballs in this country for sure.<br /><br />I came here looking for some discussion of what you quoted above:<br /><br />"‘The modern economy is built largely on fraud, creating money out of thin air."<br /><br />Pure Bernie Sanders. Which is not to imply equivalence between the two. Sanders is not a religious person. But I'm coming to see that the religious right in this country is rather strange, and that I don't belong in it.<br /><br />You might be interested in what Bishop John of Caracas and South America says about socialism here:<br /><br />http://www.synod.com/synod/engdocuments/enart_bpjohninterviewcarribean.htmlMatthew Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06816655448601065042noreply@blogger.com