I will admit – after having witnessed so many heroic efforts at the local level, and even by entire state legislative bodies – that I am skeptical of progress within the existing structures. If the position is important, whether elected or appointed, the money-people will have done the lobbying and coercion necessary to ensure that the position is not occupied by an adversary. That leaves lots of room for activism – but activism that goes nowhere because it is vetoed by a governor or struck do... moreI will admit – after having witnessed so many heroic efforts at the local level, and even by entire state legislative bodies – that I am skeptical of progress within the existing structures. If the position is important, whether elected or appointed, the money-people will have done the lobbying and coercion necessary to ensure that the position is not occupied by an adversary. That leaves lots of room for activism – but activism that goes nowhere because it is vetoed by a governor or struck down by a district or federal judge.
There needs to arise some parallel structures, at some sort of regional level, less than national but more than local; in support of catholic goals and interests. The Constitution in itself is not adequate to the task, having gotten us to this mess in the first place.
So, in short, I am here looking for allies in the Upper Midwest; persons and groups that our local group can aid, and that can aid us, in a coordinated manner; and close enough geographically to be able to make a targeted impact with reasonable expectation of success. Letter-writing campaigns would be a basic example of a coordinated effort.
There is a good core group locally, but 10's of 1000's of $ have done little to get beyond that locale, and with very little success.