Opinion of Distributism

[TJ in Oregon]

Distributism has always struck me as some sort of unattainable bound to strive toward within a capitalist system rather than a system that can actually be implemented because I don't see how you can chop up all the major corporations without the government doing it, but the government isn't supposed to run the economy so how can it? Also, what's to stop small business owners from driving each other out through competition so that one grows large at the expense of the others? How can we stop the principle of subsidiarity from dying when it isn't a self-sustaining principle? I'd love it if we could do it, but I would have no clue at how to go about implementing it. The problem is that distributism is an idea of social justice that requires individuals to support it by virtue, and not a economic system that relies on utilitarian decision-making to sustain itself. To implement or keep it would require some altruism.

[TJ in Oregon]

I also find it interesting that the poll is currently pretty even across all parties and the Republicans right now are the most supportive.