… the one core belief of the Puritans, that which survived any number of changes to mere theological and moral beliefs, is that they, the enlightened and holy, should be in charge. Starting with the University they founded within a decade of establishing their first town, the Pilgrims asserted what to them was the obvious and certain truth: they had a bead on things, anyone who disagreed was stupid or evil. It was their right and duty to rule. The theology changed from Calvinism to Unitarianism to Marxism and beyond, but the core belief in their superior understanding survived all such superficial changes.
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