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#6 Partly because of this seeming indifference, but probably more for
other reasons (different backgrounds in polical [political] thought) no Revolution
in ideas like ours in 1787, Germany tends to accept more authority
in its government. Anthropologists trace this back to family structure
where the father is very dominant, and this, too, may be a factor.
But one difference that I observe is that they don't have our concept
of the secular-amoral state; here the state is a legitimate moral agent
and has a definite responsibility to protect the morals of the people.
Thus whole areas of control and censorship (of TV, movies, etc.) which we
often see in America as threats to our freedoms as given in the Bill of
Rights- they find here more valid and necessary. Currently there is less
of these (Democracy is the byword and Authority bad.) But it is likely
that the pendulum will swing back in coming years and they have nobody
of political thought to oppose its doing so. Thus too the name "CHRISTIAN
Democratic Union (Union because it is combined a Protestant and a Catholic
party which were in pre-war years separate) is no accident- many people
support the party specifically because it is "Christian".