One of the major inadequacies that the progressives have given us here in the United States is a broken educational system. Thanks to their faulty view of anthropology, which believes in man’s general good nature and his perfectibility, progressives have systematically bankrupted education. One of the telling examples that the youth of the United States are bankrupt is there complete lack of historical knowledge. So, I have posted on this blog, a helpful reminder from history to illustrate my point.
No matter how you view Oliver Cromwell, we can take a lesson from a speech that he delivered to the English parliament. Cromwell in 1648 addressed what was called “The Rump” parliament because this is all that was left of the “Long parliament” after the English civil war. Again, Cromwell thought that the Rump parliament was not acting in the interest of the nation and so his speech is telling because it seems to address similar concerns we might have today with the US congress. I offer this speech with the hopes one can make the association between a failed government then and now.
Oliver Cromwell:
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for mess of potage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money; is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation, you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this house; and which by God’s help, and strength he has given me, I am now come to do; I command ye therefore, upon peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! Go! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, Go!”
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