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I dunno. We chopped the head off the last one who pushed too far. That sort of lesson tends to have some permanency as it echoes down the ages.
by spacedcowboy 4y ago
I dunno. We chopped the head off the last one who pushed too far. That sort of lesson tends to have some permanency as it echoes down the ages.
- thinkingemote 4y agoAlso, parliament learned lessons about the mess it gets into when there's nothing above them. Cromwell was even worse than the king before.
- pessimizer 4y agoFrance had their Cromwell moment, too, but they didn't revert everything afterwards. Turns out it requires a lot of furious, dangerous energy to destroy entrenched genetically-based status quos hundreds of years old. You can choose to come out of it as citizens rather than subjects.
- spacedcowboy 4y agoYou're aware that Brits aren't subjects, right ? That they're all citizens barring some really obscure corner-cases...