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The words politics, political, and politicians occur more than 100 times in Pope Francis' new encyclical Fratelli tutti. Chapter Five is titled "A better kind of politics". It's an indictment of populism, individualism and trickle-down economics. It laments the crisis of nation states and of the United Nations.And it calls for a new model of social, political and economic participation that is inspired by subsidiarity and solidarity, making possible a globalization of the most basic of human rights.