What if instead of asking what some billionaire entrepreneur, some bloated political party or some corporation thinks is best for us, we ask a single mother, a child at an underfunded school, a man finishing up his night shift?
What do they need? Childcare, a decent education, a minimum wage that actually pays the bills. What are we willing to do to give it to them?
Politics done right should start from the ground up. Don’t ask what the experts and technocrats think is best for society. Ask what the most vulnerable need from society. And that will tell you how the world should work. If we want a just society, an equitable society, let us start with the least among us.
Because a little girl ought to be free to have long, beautiful hair, she ought to have clean hair. Because she ought to have clean hair, she ought to have a clean home. Because she should have a clean home, she should have a free and accessible mother or father to keep it clean. Because she should have a free mother or father, her parents ought to be able to make a comfortable family wage that gives them time to raise her. And to get that family wage, companies need to pay her parents well.
Because all this ought to be, the Catholic philosopher Chesterton said, “There shall be a revolution.”
Are you ready for one?
Catholic Anonymous 
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