At least she's honest...

I'm agnostic. . . . I believe in the state.

-- Chilean presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet, quoted in Female, Agnostic and the Next Presidente?*

I believe in a state; I'm no anarchist. Some form of government, it seems, has been providentially ordained. However, following The Principle of Subsidiarity, which "holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization," any government we agree upon should be as limited as possible.

When the State takes on the role of local communities, those communities cease to meaningfully exist. When the State takes on the role of Toquevillean voluntary associations, citizens become radical individualists. When the Nanny State takes on the role of the family, the family too withers away.

Let us pray for Catholic Chile.

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