about 350 years ago, against this model, Calvinist Protestantism began to produce something called Liberal democracy which stands as the only real viable and successful alternative to the idea of the total state. Despite alternative and clever teachings to the contrary in our modern philosophy departments, despite the genius of modern political scientists, and the theories of modern sociologists, There really are no successful alternative models that produce political and social liberty

then there are those other European states, which had not truly achieved stable democracy until it was... well... forced on them by... yes... those same children of the Calvinist revolution: the United Kingdom, the United States, and our cousins, the Aussies and Canucks. You may remember that it was they who imposed democracy on Continental Europe, Germany, Italy and Austria, not to mention Japan.