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#1 : Discussing the dangers of ist’s and ism’s (part 1)

  #1 : Discussing the dangers of ist’s and ism’s (part 1) What am I? A Capitalist? A Socialist? A Dirty Commie? An Anarchist? A Republican? A Nationalist? A Globalist?   A Distributist? I suppose, I would if asked label myself a Distributist, but if I wanted to be specific, it would be Catholic, but if you wanted to know my politics it would be Subsidiaritarian Monarchist, with a couple of other ists and isms thrown in. I am not criticising being any of these or any ist or ism, what I am dealing with here is the danger of being a zealous monolithic identarian. There is nothing inherently wrong with being proud of your identity, there is when you refuse to look upon anyone outside it as heathen or heretic. You need to be open to having your ideology challenged, if it cannot defend your position, then you need to be open to change. It is also true that, in a political or economic sense there is no one answer or rather no perfect solution. Anyone who knows anything about medi