Monday, May 1, 2017
BUTTERFIELD TUDOR WHIG MAGNA CARTA RUMPOLE BROOKS AND US
"There is little sign of the importance of Magna Carta until the parliament of 1610, and the document had hardly saved Englishmen from the dangers of despotism in the time of the Tudors. Since this was the case we must not imagine that the Charter itself was for all time an all-sufficient guarantee for our liberties, or that it ratified and sealed them for ever. The history of England after the Tudors turnedMagna Carta once again into the effective cornerstone of our liberties; but the discovery of its importance, the revival of the popular memory of it, comes late, comes like an after-thought, and attains great significance in the 17th Century. The Tudor Age would never have relished the idea that the king should be limited by feudal law--they remembered too well the over-mighty subject, the danger of private rights that menaced the state. The glory of the Tudor age lay in the opposite movement in fact--the victory that the monarch had achieved over feudal limitations and over the whole realm of privilege."
One might say that there are few protections here, now, in this new feudal age, none from a crown, virtually none from a mere president, none from a Congress on the leash of enormous private rights patronage, from the immensely accrued private rights power and privilege of the top .1%, a faux aristocracy only of wealth, which now holds sway over everything here, behind the scenes.
Magna Carta, around 1600, by a Whig miracle of interpretation, became the founding document of what lately has become this top .1%.
The freedoms of the age of the democratic revolution, beginning in the 18th Century, have lately been appropriated by the top .1%, now, mainly for itself. It has been systematically impoverishing the lower income people of the West, joining in common cause with upper elites elsewhere.
The only power now that can rise up against, or in alliance with, this power has been a gaggle of strong men, as Brooks now calls them, faux monarchs and barons, in an evil dark medieval world of rival civilizations, collapsed class systems.
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