/pnd/ - Politics, News, Debate

Thread has potential but it's just fancy. Gaining political power when all levels of government are under (((foreign occupation))) is impossible unless you fulfill their agenda. Read as many books as you like though. At least you can enjoy being an "intellectual."

Duddy Kravitz's old orthodox jewish grandfather;

"A man without land is nothing".

It's true you know. And women know this better than you do. If you want the first junior baby level of political power get some land. Once you're paying property taxes politicians may actually listen to what you have to say for 5 minutes when it's voting season.

The more land you have the more they'll listen to you.

In the middle ages you weren't a member of the aristocracy at it's lowest level unless you had enough land to raise enough cattle to trade for a suit of armor, weapons and a couple war horses. The price was something like 56 head of cattle. By the 11th century every arable piece of land capable of producing 56 head of cattle was taken up. Second and third sons of aristocrats were given the choice of stepping down in status or taking religious orders. Naturally they revolted and across Europe anarchy broke out with gangs of these disenfranchised young men who would never inherit land turning murdering aristocrats with land they could seize. The crisis became so great that the pope declared "The peace of God" when they young disenfranchised noblemen started massacring monasteries full of monks and nuns to seize their lands. Then the pope declared the first Crusade and sent them all far far away in the hopes they'd never return. It sort of worked.