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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdelson and Kristol attempt the first Liberum veto in U.S. history
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Adelson and Kristol attempt the first Liberum veto in U.S. history
As the GOP sabotage and sedition continues, the US appears to be going the way of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (P-LC) rather than the way of the Roman Empire.
If you know your history, this is not an insult; but, rather, a tragedy in progress. The P-LC was a powerful and progressive state during the early Reformation era, reaching its Golden Age in about 1575.
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However the series of power struggles between the lesser nobility (szlachta), the higher nobility (magnates), and elected kings, undermined citizenship values and gradually eroded the government's authority, ability to function and provide for national defense. The infamous liberum veto procedure was used to paralyze parliamentary proceedings beginning in the second half of the 17th century.
- Wikipedia P-LC
The failure of the P-LC flavor of democracy used to be taught to schoolchildren in civics class (what's that?) as a cautionary tale. Clearly, the US has reached the "doomed to relive it" part of Santayana's dictum on history.
Just to be clear about what is going down in America today: A billionaire "magnate" sits in the gallery of Congress while his hired stooges ($1M contributed to Tom Cotton's campaign by some Jewish "emergency" committee run by Bill Kristol) violate two hundred years of protocol and further show their disrespect for the President. The HoR has interfered in foreign affairs by inviting a hostile-to-the-President politician, who is another lying neanderthal heavily funded by the same billionaire - Sheldon Adelson.
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Adelson and Kristol attempt the first Liberum veto in U.S. history (Original Post)
Panich52
Mar 2015
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. Wow Excellent Read.
Bookmarked .
Must Read!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Fantastic Post.
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)3. K&R
starroute
(12,977 posts)4. Remembered as the days when Lithuania stretched from sea to sea
From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, that is -- though looking at the map, it looks like they didn't quite make it to the Black Sea, since the Khanate of the Crimea blocked the way.
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