Christian Democracy/Atlanticism

Christian Democracy is many things to many people and barely even known as a concept outside of the European Union. Historically it was second fiddle to existing autocrats and aristocrats barely forming civilian governments as power was slowly and reluctantly surrendered to a sort of middle class that just tended to be nominally Catholic or Lutheran. After WW2 having been established as the more popular ideology, it started to be seen as simply Social Democracy with a religious slant to it (the two having fought together and each other in Allied resistance movements across Western Europe);…  Read more usually very conservative ones while also advocating for Civil Law, a welfare state, a regulated, distributist/social market economy with parity between public Secular and private Catholic unions (formerly known as guilds) to prevent the undermining of national security, ongoing European community projects, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and more direct permanent partnerships with the United States. Otherwise the idea continues to hold various or even neutral social positions which creates a semblance of unity in some governments as politics in Europe have remained unicameral and multiparty instead of bicameral de facto duopoly as in the United States. Although left/right divides as well as radical left/right secular, etatist and chauvinist sentiment do in European politics (despite the best efforts of the U.S.) causing Christian Democracy to split among factions into key parties and absolute obscurity. The United States itself can make the best use and export of the system.