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Entry: The Ron Paul Revolution Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_ron_paul_revolution#8712 Post contents: I shouldn't pick on you, Boyd, because you've made a good faith effort to interact with my points. I know that some Catholics write decent things about subsidiarity. but I don't see it in real life. Whenever Catholic populations reach critical mass, they call for some sort of big managerial state that uses the social control to keep the masses in line. There are exception, such as 1950s America and Kuyper's Holland, but these were times when protestants held the reigns of power. By contrast, Kirk's Anglo-American culture of prudence and transcendent order was fueled by low-church Anglicanism. The Outer Hebrides that he used to write about is a Presbyterian archipelago (where I hope to retire some day). When he needed a Catholic example of his ideal, he used an obscurity, Brownson. For whatever reason, Catholics like political theatre, romanticized politics and class division. The phenomenon predates modernism. It even predates the Reformation. I see why those German princes and English MPs wanted to be free of it. Sent at: 2008 10 06