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To: Red Badger

Every dictator and tyrant who ever existed claimed he was working for the common good.


10 posted on 10/07/2025 11:20:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

This is a little scary; from Wiki:

“A convert to Catholicism, Vermeule has become an advocate of integralism, a form of modern legal and political thought originating in historically Catholic-dominant societies and opposed to the Founding Fathers’ ideal of division between church and state. Integralism in practice gives rise to state order (identifiable as theocratic) in which the Common Good has precedence over individual autonomy, the value prioritized by American democracy. Rather than electoral politics, the path to confessional political order in integralist theory is “strategic ralliement”, or transformation within institutions and bureaucracies, that lays the groundwork for a realized integralist regime to succeed a liberal democratic order it assumes to be dying. The new state would “exercise coercion over baptized citizens in a manner different from non-baptized citizens”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Vermeule


15 posted on 10/07/2025 11:27:15 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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