{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Why did Bismark lose the kulturkampf.", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/136669882618/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: Why did Bismark lose the kulturkampf.</div>\n<p>Catholic hierarchy is a time-tested balance of central and local power such that there was no particular center of power to resolve things by capturing; the dispersed but literate and networked Catholic centers of power positioned themselves so that defeating any one cost more power than it was worth on a 20 year horizon and defeating all at once cost too much in the face of external threats.</p>"}