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To: Olog-hai
> Elitist oligarchs do not set up parliaments unless they are toy (rubber-stamp) parliaments.

Faiir point, but I believe it was well armed lords and religious (but also well armed) Puritans who forced the King to accept government by parliament, and they even executed the King and banned the Monarchy once before.

90 posted on 09/08/2022 11:02:17 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: SecondAmendment

I know the history well. Oliver Cromwell is a long-reviled figure in Irish history particularly due to his reported mercilessness upon the city of Drogheda when they refused to surrender.

There must have been divine retribution upon the Puritans for the act of regicide, because they were driven out of every other European country they fled to and ended up dying out in the USA. Remember what David did to the unnamed Amalekite who thought he was going to be rewarded for his claim of killing Saul (2 Samuel 1:1-16).


291 posted on 09/09/2022 11:57:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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