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Ok, let me throw a slightly different question out there. If a country (let's say Communist China or a resurrected Soviet Russia,) whose government you have seen as contradictory to your personal political and religious values were the coutry in question (for the US, assume that they bullied Mexico into cooperating and were pouring over the border,) would you support an extremely corrupt US government who violated the human and civil rights of its citizens through indefinite martial law but still allowed you to freely practice your religion and vote in elections?
I'm trying to create a hypothetical situation in which you would be in the same situation as the Iraqis. The problem I'm having here is that I don't know of any TFP members who believe that the authority to rule in government comes solely from God, so we can't think in the same way. I'm trying this question because it puts us in a situation in which we are oppressed, but the alternative is a government that goes against our moral and ethical standards.
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