SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Yes, Pope Francis is officially a rock star. First pope ever on a Rolling Stone cover. Already Person of the Year for Time. Plus a CNN poll says 88% of Americans approve of Pope Francis.

All red flags warning Paul Ryan and GOP conservatives their extreme-right agenda is in more trouble than the low congressional poll numbers suggest. And no match against the Rock-Star Pope and his radical anticapitalist revolution for 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide.

Short term, we expect conservative politicians will keep pushing their hard-right agenda. But Pope Francis is a game-charger. Yes, conservatives will continue to suppress the minority vote ... block immigration reform ... cut aid to programs for the poor ... deny women the right to safe health care ... embrace Big Oil climate-science deniers ... and much more.

But they’re out of step with the revolution. The Rock-Star Pope is leading a historic paradigm shift, the voice an emerging new global collective conscience that’s rejecting today’s conservatism.

Rock-Star Pope leading the 21st century revolution

Long term, Rolling Stone is a huge warning to conservatives: “Pope Francis: The Times are A-Changin:’ Inside the pope’s gentle revolution.” This war conservatives will lose. A groundswell is building for Pope Francis’ army of 1.2 billion. History is on the side of his anticapitalist revolution.

Yes, inside America’s political sitcom little is heard, denial dominates. We are distracted by the relentless chatter about the Washington political sitcom, buzz about the latest House obstructionists’ maneuver, waiting for the latest gossip about Chris Christie’s 2016 prospects, his possible impeachment, and any other mind-numbing staccato trivia.

But look beyond our borders: the Rock-Star Pope is a new global creative-destruction force, the ignition trigger in a revolution that conservative ideology will deny to the bitter end, while Francis inspires and builds his power base.

The principles of Joseph Schumpeter’s “Creative Destruction” are well known to Wall Street economists: Throughout history something new, better, more powerful invariably emerges, destroys, replaces the old, the traditional, what no longer works. In America, Reagan in front of the conservative revolution a generation ago. It’s backfiring, passé, desperately struggling to hang on, even rejecting Reagan’s tradition of compromise.

Last summer Time magazine covered his trip to the “World Youth Rally” in Brazil. The headline: “More Like a Rock Star, Pope Francis Calls For ‘Disorder’ In Rio.” He “keeps shaking things.” They love the Rock-Star Pope who’s leading a revolution from another world, beyond America’s myopic borders, creating a new world that conservatives will deny, won’t grasp till it’s too late. Listen to his modern version of a fire-and-brimstone sermon:

He calls for global “disorder.” The Rock-Star Pope is the embodiment of economist Schumpeter’s creative destruction. His message to the world’s youth: “I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!” Yes, he’s inspiring a radical, game-changing revolution.

Capitalism and financial speculation: root cause of all global social ills

Pope Francis is clearly at war with capitalism. His manifesto is clear: The source of global inequality is capitalism: “Inequality is the root of social ills ... as long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”

Get it? Reject capitalism is his battle cry. Elizabeth Dias reported from Rio: “More than one million people came to hear him preach last night at Copacabana Beach.” Like at a new Woodstock. The Rock-Star Pope was in sync with the masses.

Indeed, “the optics themselves were far more like a theatrical evangelical set-up than a traditional Vatican mass. Francis arrived by helicopter. Blue and pink lights flooded an enormous stage. A giant cross, without a Christ’s body, hung front and center. Cheering “El Papa Francisco!”

There’s no room for compromise: Pope Francis’s anticapitalism mandate is absolute. The GOP’s conservative capitalism is equally absolute. Not just to obstruct, conservatives will oppose anything that doesn’t fit precisely in their rigid dogma, destroy it.

Today’s extreme conservatism was articulated decades ago in “Atlas Shrugged” and other philosophical works of Ayn Rand, a personal mentor to long-time Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. Today she remains the patron saint of conservatism, most notably GOP House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan. For ideologues, “Atlas Shrugged“ is the bible of conservatism: “Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction.”

A reply from the Rock-Star Pope may come with a disarming smile, but there’s no compromise between Francis’s anticapitalism and the GOP’s conservative capitalism: “Money must serve, not rule,” yet “we calmly accept its dominion over ourselves and our societies. ... The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money” as we “overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person!”

Ayn Rand conservatism at war with Rock-Star Pope economics

Ayn Rand is as clear today for conservatives as when she wrote her classic “Atlas Shrugged” condemning the poor and “anyone looking for a government handout” as “moochers, looters and parasites.” That philosophy is stronger today amid extreme fears that America is descending into the hell of a socialist welfare state.

In other works Ayn Rand is even more dogmatic: “When I say capitalism, I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism, with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.” Why? Because “capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values.” Free market? Even Adam Smith would call this anarchy, not freedom.

But today, “The Times They are A-changin’,” for all conservatives, capitalists and traditionalists, the new creative destruction is moving into high gear, outside their peripheral vision, driven by some powerful energy that is beyond politics, economics, beyond religion. A new Zeitgeist is emerging from the world’s collective conscience, one that conservatives don’t see, can’t stop.

When CBS News covered the Rolling Stone story it was quick to add that the first news of a “Superpope” actually came on the Vatican’s own twitter feed, obviously with Francis’s own blessing! Yes, he’s high tech, a social networker, and a PR master at crowd-sourcing enthusiasm and action, something American politicians lost after Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. But today media is throwing fuel on the flames. Listen to CBS News breathless promotion:

“Catholics call St. Peter the rock on which the church is built. Now it’s being rebuilt — by a rock star.” The Vatican even broadcast self-promotional photos of a mural by Roman artist Mauro Pallotta of Pope Francis as Superman! “The latest incarnation of a pope who is nearing celebrity status. What other pope could make the cover of Rolling Stone!?” Adding that more than 6 million have turned up in St. Peter’s Square in the 10 months since Francis became pope.

Yes, such expectations may be overzealous. But it’s clear the masses want what he’s messaging. Plus maybe hoping for a bit of balance and compromise between Ayn Rand conservatives and the new Rock-Star Pope’s anticapitalism. Some kind of truce that works for all, and saves the planet from an acceleration of divisive warring.

For now, let’s all look up on high for inspiration. As Yahoo put it: “He’s everywhere. Now he’s swooping in to save the day, like the Man of Steel,” to save the world, and save our tomorrow too.

Yes, pray he’ll succeed in moving Heaven, Earth, some politicians with backbone, everybody. Pray he will succeed because our planet needs lots of help. Pray he’ll even use the basic skills he learned as a bar bouncer and janitor before becoming a priest. Pray for Francis to succeed as the world’s new peacemaker.