I am so glad that I read this. Cromwell said it so well, and his words are even more applicable for the polluted political sesspool we have today. Thank you for sharing this.
Cromwell promptly became a one man corrupt Lord Protector thus eliminating the need for self rule by corrupt Parliament and Kings. It took a while to come to fruition but ultimately the Whigs had a Glorious Revolution creating both Monarch and Bank of England. Now two Kings could jostle for power.
Thank you for posting Oliver Cromwells speech. I will print it out and hang it up where I can.
I’ve said this on other Stacks that I truly see no other option than storming the castles. They are killing us on every level as if we were rats, they MUST go. I’m hoping the second amendment is making the elites quake in their boots. I don’t have a firearm up here in Canada but I have an Axe.
Rather than declaring absolute power corrupts absolutely, it gets revealed that a common metaphysical denominator: corruptibility, fundamentally connects all those with political power.
The most corruptible are attracted to power.
In that case, the global political infrastructure as we know it today got built on the building block of corruption by its very virtue.
Take as an example the Global Corruption Index (GCI 2021) https://risk-indexes.com/about-gci/ covered 196 countries and territories and provided a comprehensive overview of the State of Corruption worldwide based on 43 variables.
Countries must be Confederacies of people who agree that centralized power is not the answer because history clearly points it out - As in throughout all of mankind's history, all ideologies and faith-based ideologies included.
People cannot be trusted with that much power and access to so much devastation and destruction.
We need to downsize ALL centralized governments to zero.
That is the answer, and it is the only answer to this neverending cesspool of corruption and people drunk on power and violence.
Hmm..And for the longest time I thought Cromwell was the bad guy for letting all the Pan-European business interests flood the British Isles unchecked ..And then not long after - wasn’t the whole of London on fire?
Hmm..And for the longest time I thought Cromwell was the bad guy for letting all the Pan-European business interests flood the British Isles unchecked ..And then not long after - wasn’t the whole of London on fire?
And by God he did disband Parliment forthwith and initiate an autocratic rule, didn't he. Complete with a little anti-Catholic genocide side jaunt against the Irish. And then, five years later, Cromwell was dead. And well... the rest is history.
Fair diagnosis, poor prescription. I don't think we need a theocratic strongman at this particular moment in US history.
I thought this was supposed to be an "antidote to gaslighting"? Disappointed, because this reads just like counter-gaslighting.
That's a poor excuse. You took Cromwell completely out of context because you liked that one speech. If you're going to pull that kind of trick, it would behoove you to at least make some disclaimers.
Here, have a little flashback to 2019. Matt Taibbi didn't like Trump either, but he at least had some clue of what he was talking about. You could learn from him.
That's an incredibly cheap and lazy thing to say. Trump was nothing like Cromwell. That's CNN-level intellectual dishonesty.
You should read some accounts of what it's like to live through a military coup. There have certainly been plenty of recent examples. I don't think it's something to wish for here, but I don't see one coming too soon either.
Cromwell calls out Biden from across the ages.
Amazing how the words fit.
Thank you. Brilliant and incisive. Cromwell resonates.
I am so glad that I read this. Cromwell said it so well, and his words are even more applicable for the polluted political sesspool we have today. Thank you for sharing this.
Cromwell promptly became a one man corrupt Lord Protector thus eliminating the need for self rule by corrupt Parliament and Kings. It took a while to come to fruition but ultimately the Whigs had a Glorious Revolution creating both Monarch and Bank of England. Now two Kings could jostle for power.
Thank you for posting Oliver Cromwells speech. I will print it out and hang it up where I can.
I’ve said this on other Stacks that I truly see no other option than storming the castles. They are killing us on every level as if we were rats, they MUST go. I’m hoping the second amendment is making the elites quake in their boots. I don’t have a firearm up here in Canada but I have an Axe.
Bono tri e d to hire me...
I told.him to suck an egg
They see your axe
They have a needle....
I play my axe
Its a guitar
Apparently we haven't learned a damn thing since 1653.
Rather than declaring absolute power corrupts absolutely, it gets revealed that a common metaphysical denominator: corruptibility, fundamentally connects all those with political power.
The most corruptible are attracted to power.
In that case, the global political infrastructure as we know it today got built on the building block of corruption by its very virtue.
Take as an example the Global Corruption Index (GCI 2021) https://risk-indexes.com/about-gci/ covered 196 countries and territories and provided a comprehensive overview of the State of Corruption worldwide based on 43 variables.
Countries must be Confederacies of people who agree that centralized power is not the answer because history clearly points it out - As in throughout all of mankind's history, all ideologies and faith-based ideologies included.
People cannot be trusted with that much power and access to so much devastation and destruction.
We need to downsize ALL centralized governments to zero.
That is the answer, and it is the only answer to this neverending cesspool of corruption and people drunk on power and violence.
Amen….
I agree.
Hmm..And for the longest time I thought Cromwell was the bad guy for letting all the Pan-European business interests flood the British Isles unchecked ..And then not long after - wasn’t the whole of London on fire?
Hmm..And for the longest time I thought Cromwell was the bad guy for letting all the Pan-European business interests flood the British Isles unchecked ..And then not long after - wasn’t the whole of London on fire?
Liked and shared, even quoted you directly on Twitter. Great work!
Thank you
P.J. O'Rourke stated it in "Parliament of Whores" in 1991 - great book!
And by God he did disband Parliment forthwith and initiate an autocratic rule, didn't he. Complete with a little anti-Catholic genocide side jaunt against the Irish. And then, five years later, Cromwell was dead. And well... the rest is history.
Fair diagnosis, poor prescription. I don't think we need a theocratic strongman at this particular moment in US history.
I thought this was supposed to be an "antidote to gaslighting"? Disappointed, because this reads just like counter-gaslighting.
The piece did not argue for a theocratic strongman at all. The focus was elsewhere.
That's a poor excuse. You took Cromwell completely out of context because you liked that one speech. If you're going to pull that kind of trick, it would behoove you to at least make some disclaimers.
We had Donald J. Trump for four years - the rest is history.
Here, have a little flashback to 2019. Matt Taibbi didn't like Trump either, but he at least had some clue of what he was talking about. You could learn from him.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup
That's an incredibly cheap and lazy thing to say. Trump was nothing like Cromwell. That's CNN-level intellectual dishonesty.
You should read some accounts of what it's like to live through a military coup. There have certainly been plenty of recent examples. I don't think it's something to wish for here, but I don't see one coming too soon either.
"The government is the problem" - Ronald Reagan