From the Golden Age to Donald J. Trump's Republican Party, a Brief Political History of America: The Commonwealth of Pyrates

By Baylus C. Brooks

America began as a crude criminal enterprise to steal Spanish gold, silver, and land under the abusive Stuart dynasty. While England had undergone a liberal political transformation after 1688, America remained as conservative as their original Stuart patrons dominant during the founding seventeenth century. By 1715, American pirates fought to maintain their conservative society. After all, the author of "A General History of the Pirates" called America a "Commonwealth of Pyrates." He was absolutely right! And, pirates we remained! Donald J. Trump is merely a symptom of the culture Americans made for themselves. Still, we made a Bill of Rights that handicapped our founders and gave us the chance to create a progressive society. It's quite telling that Republicans today have to repeatedly violate the Constitution to get what they want!

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• Release date: Dec 1, 2019
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From the Golden Age to Donald J. Trump's Republican Party, a Brief Political History of America: The Commonwealth of Pyrates

From the Golden Age to Donald J. Trump’s Republican Party:

A Brief Political History of America:

The Commonwealth of Pyrates!

This political-historical treatise was adapted from the conclusion of Quest for Blackbeard: The True Story of Edward Thache and His World (2nd edition), by Baylus C. Brooks

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ISBN 978-1-79477-923-5

Baylus C. Brooks

MA in Maritime Studies from East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina

Poseidon Research and Publishing of Gainesville, Florida

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Website: http://baylusbrooks.com

From the Golden Age

To Donald J. Trump’s Republican Party:

A Brief Political History of America:

The Commonwealth of Pyrates!

"Corruption is worse than prostitution.

The latter might endanger the morals of an individual,

The former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."

~ Karl Kraus

When Bernard Cooke of Barbados had accused James Grazett of saying God damn King George and all his family; He is a Dutch dog and son of a whore… Here is King James the third’s health, right and lawful heir to the Crown, he employed a common Jacobite rhetorical device.[1] Aside from the obvious ad hominem elements, logicians today call it ignoratio elenchi or missing the point. By associating Grazett with James Stuart the Pretender, he accused him of treason – a scandalous, yet common charge – but Cooke had other non-treasonous reasons with which to be annoyed concerning Grazett. Cooke simply hoped to sway the actual argument in his favor by associating Grazett with a unrelated traitorous group – it didn’t matter if Grazett actually said what Cooke claimed he said. The damage is done once the words are spoken.

No one is more familiar with this simple diversionary tactic than the current president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. As we have found throughout time, these unfounded attacks are antithetical to any good argument – or any good government. Trump uses them merely as stall tactics and/or diversionary methods. For instance, in the United States today, our system of checks and balances works best when both political parties negotiate in good faith – admittedly unlikely in the Trump Era. Otherwise, any discussion may devolve into logically fallacious political attacks, like Cooke’s – and like many of Trump’s! Still, American culture itself has always leaned toward the wild frontier, the outrageous – the criminal. Trump, even with his pedantic, selfish behavior, is by no means an unusual aberration. Indeed, for perhaps the first time in our history – even despite the findings of the Impeachment Inquiry – the over forty percent persistent support for Trump honestly reveals our long-held, deeply racist, belligerent, and yes, ploddingly puerile criminal natures.

Where did this behavior come from? An obvious hint would be: it’s always been here – at least as far back as 1588, when the English first realized Spain’s weakness and decided to steal the source of their great wealth. England came to the New World to steal the gold and silver treasures which Spain originally had stolen from the Native American. America began as a massive robbery scheme perpetrated by criminals. Our ancestors were criminals. They lived criminal lives far from any authority to restrain them. Little has changed since. We built Capt. Charles Johnson’s Commonwealth of Pyrates in the savage wilderness of America – a criminal Pirate Nation in America!

This base criminal history became apparent since even before the United States was founded – then during the Golden Age of Piracy (essentially, America’s first attempt at revolution) – during the divisionary politics of the Antebellum period – finally erupting into a septic festering blister called the Civil War. That severe wound has gnawed at liberalism now for over 155 years, forever promising vengeance for the loss of Southern property (slaves)! Make America Great Again or MAGA is simply the South rising again as they have always warned that they would do. Yes, yes… Dominionists say God this and God that – and the vengeful and cruel Old Testament Christian god of the slave-master was, indeed, a part of it – still, we understand quite well the actual, real-world, racial cause: Negro Rule as Southern defenders called it in 1898. Taking orders from a black president was far too much for the defeated white former slave-owners of the Confederacy to withstand. Certainly, I feel this history’s reprise every single time a U. S. Republican congressmen from the South: Graham from South Carolina, Kennedy from Louisiana, or Collins from Georgia speak in Trump’s defense. And, let’s be honest: most of the Republican Party today are from the South or rural states that would have sided with the South in the Civil War – only one Republican senator is from a former Union state: Pennsylvania. What about Trump’s defense? Of course there is no actual or real defense for a sociopathic narcissist criminal who repeatedly and openly violates the Constitution or breaks the law. And, breaking the law isn’t the point for Trump’s MAGA following – the point is vengeance for foisting a black president upon them.

Fortunately for us, the South is nowhere near as strong as they once were. Their contagion of hatred has devoured most of the meat from the Confederacy’s rotting corpse. It even infests and handicaps rural states that have formed since 1865. We know that this aberrant and traitorous president will quickly dissipate into the pages of history enjoying nothing of the former Lost Cause devotion of his neo-Confederate mostly evangelist followers. Still, he will cause real damage to our republic before he goes – not unlike the damage Jacobites did to Britain in 1715.

Why was Cooke’s Dutch dog diversionary attack considered effective? Well, to fully understand involves knowing our past – yes, I’m sorry – we must explore history. Unlike our British cousins, Americans thoroughly despise this single academic subject – almost as much as math. History is not a subject that many Americans have usually enjoyed, although many amateurs pretend to have mastery over it – which reduces its professional effectiveness. The reasons for this negative, reductive sentiment should also be a clue as to our piratish or criminal origins and will be illuminated in the following ninety or so pages.

The German King George’s claim to England’s throne in 1714 is confusing unless you understand that two monarchs before him was Dutch King of England William of Orange, married to Mary Stuart, daughter of James II. His House of Nassau was an aristocratic dynasty associated with Nassau Castle, located in present-day Nassau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – once a part of Prussia. Nassau, the primary town on New Providence Island of the Bahamas – the stronghold of the Flying Gang of Benjamin Hornigold’s pirates – was named in honor of William of Orange, a prince of Nassau and then king of England.

How did a Dutchman become prince of a territory in Prussia? Well… William was a Dutchman (although married to Mary Stuart of fine Scottish stock, which legitimized his rule), but also from the Ottonian branch of the Princes of Nassau who gave rise to the Princes of Orange and the monarchs of the Netherlands. The Principality of Orange actually originates from what is now France, but I’m sure you’re already completely confused. Suffice it to say that this heritage goes back to the Holy Roman Empire when in 1544 the dynasties of Orange and Nassau aligned. William of Orange married Mary Stuart – but had no issue and therefore, the Principality of Orange fell into the hands of Frederic-Henry, Frederick I of Prussia, who ceded the principality — at least the lands, but not the formal title — to France in 1713. So, the title of a Prince of Orange no longer carried property when George took the throne from Mary’s sister Anne Stuart – who also died with no heirs. It was simply a royal family connection to the line of Frederick I. Being landless, however, was virtually a crime to British gentlemen!

Officially, on 1 August 1714, George Louis, son of Sophia of the Palatinate in Heidelberg – herself, the daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth Stuart of England – became King of Great Britain and Ireland and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire. George Louis carried only a fleeting connection