Creating Royalty

"Peter" has some thoughts about money and government.

In the Dark Ages English and French speaking peoples developed a hierarchy of governance for organizing self defense, trade and social interaction. The land was divided into areas of control that were managed by Dukes, Earls, Barons and other similarly entitled Lords, or royalty, who ruled over the people in their area of influence. The serfs were the worker bees who farmed or fished or performed a service, such as blacksmithing or driving horse drawn wagons to deliver trade goods. Each Royal imposed taxes on everyone below, raised and supported his own army. But, they all pledged allegiance to the King.

 

The King was at the top of the chain of command and all the royals obeyed his commands. Failure to do so resulted in imprisonment or death. Becoming King was a birth right, there were no elections or democratic processes to contend with. The Royals all cooperated with each other to maintain control over the people and to bolster trade. They banded their armies together to fight a common enemy, whether foreign or domestic. That is the system which we fought our way out of with the Revolutionary War. We evolved into a democratic republic and became the mightiest nation the world has ever seen.

 

Now there are indications that we are devolving back into a monarchy. We have our own Dukes, Earls and Barons pretending to be Lords overseeing the people once again. The billionaire oligarchs of Big Tech and the Media have begun telling us what we can or can’t say publicly. If you don’t obey their wishes, you are banned from communicating at all. Like the Royals of Old, they band together for THEIR common good. Patriotic or conservative views are unacceptable, because they can more easily maintain control over the people, you, through a Democrat administration bolstered by the Deep State. The government is controlled by money given to politicians. The Oligarchs have more money than the government and they hand it out by the millions to individual politicians. They get it all back tenfold, from us, by manipulating the stock markets and trade agreements.

 

The Oligarchs were making billions from China until Trump came along. They were making billions by manipulating the stock markets until Trump came along. They were exerting more and more control over content on social media until Trump threatened to take away their immunity from being sued (a gift from Obama).

 

The Oligarchs argue that they are private enterprise and can do whatever they wish with their empires. But, in reality they are a shadow government. They are operating no different from the Royalty of Old. They want to be the Royalty of today and only THEY may decide who the King shall be.

 

The state of education today has left the majority of millenials and young people ignorant about the Revolutionary War and the issues that led up to it. They are ignorant of who the Founding Fathers were or what they fought for. They are ignorant of what made America the mightiest nation on Earth. It was the people who answered the call of patriotism in time of war. It was the citizen soldiers who stood up against the strongest army of its time, English soldiers. It was the citizen soldiers who stood up against the Oligarchs of the Southern states to save the Union, the Fascists of both world wars and the communists of the Cold War.

 

Ignorance is allowing the freedoms we have fought for to slip away. Free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, the right of a citizen, and only a citizen, to vote.

 

But the bottom line is, it’s always about the money.

 

Comments

[Gunny]

The Oligarchs will always have their private armies and police, while legislation is being drafted at this moment to take away all "military style" firearms from the citizens. The courts have balked at intervening, so what recourse do we have? We must sweep the next election and neutralize their power. A patriotic purge of socialists and anarchists is required.

[Manx]

The state of our capitulated union does draw comparisons to feudal systems. Time wise we’re currently being drawn back to 17th Century England when feudalism was waning. 17th Century – one hundred years of continuous chaos within the English parliamentary system. The days of an unprincipled Parliament doing the bidding of a sovereign on the surface but undermining the sovereign at every chance. Leading Parliament was the House of Lords – Lords – not unlike our Senate. Lords – a political body of unelected oligarchs from various backgrounds including and still to this days ranking clerics of the Church of England – clerics reporting to the head of their church – the sovereign. Today we are falling prey not to oligarchs – persons with various foundations of power - but to plutocrats – persons using their financial fortunes to take and wield power.

Like Parliament in those days we are now witnessing a dubious group not unlike Lords. There was no supreme court in England at that time. Lords had final say in carrying out the law. Today we use the term “star chamber” to refer to a clandestine group secretly rendering governance and law. In England there was an actual system like that with the title “Star Chamber” which did the sovereign’s bidding.

Today people think of the ill-fated Gunpowder Plot against Parliament and one of its co-conspirators - Guy Fawkes – as the patriotic symbol of those times. Unfortunately modern people lose sight that 17th Century Parliament gave rise to Oliver Cromwell and the havoc and destruction he and his regime crippled England and much of Britain with – not just Cromwell’s war but well after that through Cromwell’s parliament.

We’re now at a place in our country where our forefathers were in their Colonies when they were bearing England’s convoluted brunt in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

[Ruwanna]

I have noticed that democrat run states, like NY, Oregon, Washington, etc. are prioritizing vaccinations for groups like teachers over seniors. Since seniors are the ones who most often die from covid, this seems illogical. But for democrats it is pure logic, since more seniors are conservatives and more young people are liberals. Cuomo sending young infected people to senior nursing homes is a good example. Cold blooded politics democrat style.

[Legion]

When talking about the civil war let’s not forget the part played by New England oligarchs who wanted to control cotton prices and protect their monopoly on exports to England and France. For the CSA to leave the union and form their own country would have devastated their empire. Again it’s about the money.

[Legion]

Let’s not forget about the New England cotton oligarchs who built their empire buying cheap cotton and exporting to European countries, especially England and France. For the CSA to form their own Union could have devastated the ‘Yankee’ cotton merchants empire. Qualifier: I happen to live in a city on the Mississippi River long known as the cotton Capitol of the South. It’s all about money!

[Legion]

Oops. Sorry for the duplication. I think my phones a liberal democrat

[Leo]

What is the old saying, "He that hath the gold makes the rules." The Russians also have an expression, "The man with the money orders the music."