The Centralist

[BenevolentManacles 2232]

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The Centralist

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For centuries the Empire’s stability would depend on their individual relationship with their vassals, who so often are fickle and self interested. War after war, generation after generation, humanity has anguished. These wars were far too often not over the vision of the Empire, but instead over the interests of ethnic groups, cultural entities and cults of personality whose qualms with the Crown were based on personal insult, opinion, or ideology.

 

The demolition of subnational government is not a pipe dream, it is a bare and present reality. The representation of the people by their own chosen members of their communities, this is a bare and present reality. Our Government should not share it’s nationhood with any single one of its constituents, nor share with the Imperial Crown a sovereign rule. Our Government should not search for the easiest path to achieve its goals, no matter how altruistic they may be. Tyranny is easy. Good government cannot be easy, and so it cannot have a single head, exempting our sovereign. Our government should be good, and it should have many branches.

 

The Diet legislates.

 

Through the power of law, which in Empires past was solely in the hands of the Sovereign and his selected friends, the House of Commons makes the lives of the Cabinet Ministers difficult. They examine them, scrutinize them, regulate them. This is a shield against tyranny, but it is also a symbolic prerequisite for those Minister’s loyalty to the Empire, and the Imperial Crown.

 

The Court judges.

 

Never before in the history of mankind have the subjects of an Imperial sovereign had the ability to pursue legal ramifications not only on each other, but even their own government. This is a power, invested by our law and constitution, greater than common folk have ever had before. The Courts scrutinize the law of the Diet, and the acts of the Cabinet, and restrain them from their inevitable overreach.

 

The Cabinet executes.

 

Privy Councils were executives, where a Lord Justice both made law and ruled on it, an Archchancellor acted as a sub-Emperor, who operated with all the authority of the Imperial Crown. The Privy Council is done away with. Now the executives are subject to review and scrutiny both through election, the courts, and the Diet. The idea of an authoritarian council of Dukes and vassal Kings is eradicated wholesale.

 

Yet, this evolution in government is incomplete, and there are those who stand in the way.

 

The Josephite clings to the Imperial Crown, the establishment, and pretends to absorb themself into it. They are not a branch of government, but rather he seats himself on the shoulder of the sovereign. Their Imperial Majesties are full of grace and love for their people, and the Josephite would pretend this grace and love is their own. His platform is not one of evolution, but of stagnation. He panders to you. He does nothing but warn you, ‘The Everardines will pass ethnic legislation, so you must vote for us.’ He tells you, ’The people are safe, so why do any more?’

 

The Everardine builds a platform founded on the root of Imperial devolution. He, like the Josephite, is guilty of pandering, relying on voters by promising them subnational government, and the autonomy to form their own nation within a nation, which has since the dawn of the Empire been the core of disaster. He would see elves and others put under human boots, where our elven subjects have become a pillar of the Imperial identity. 

 

The Josephite is too close to the Crown, and the Everardine is too far.

 

In the beginning of this essay, and of humanity, wars were fought not over a vision of a better Empire, but instead in the interests of warlords and self-serving politicians. 

 

The Centralist is not a panderer. The Centralist is a visionary.

 

He sees the work is never done. He plans for systems to replace the subnational governments, and make every territory and people in the Empire a piece of it, and not something else. 

 

He sees that talent is rare, and that he should promote equal opportunities for all subjects; not because it will win them votes, but because talent must be put to use. 

 

He sees that the government and the Crown are not one in the same, that clinging to the status quo and the current peace is easy, and good government should not be easy. Tyranny is easy.

 

Edward Selm

12th of Harren’s Folly

1788

[Draeris 3124]

“A party that first tried to blackmail and threaten itself into Everardine leadership, and now out of bitterness sets up this milquetoast political movement in mere spite of the incumbents and Her Imperial Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. By god am I thankful for not heeding the serpentine words of Edward Selm: for this pamphlet exposes the ideological bankruptcy and the sheer hunger for power that is manifested in this single man, and his uninspiring followers.”

 

Adrian would state, leaning forward to snort another line of Albarosan powder with a rolled up Imperial Mark. He was feeling terribly profound lately. 

[Da_Emperors 1987]

Ledicort d’Azor would take a seat at his desk as he would shuffle over the various pieces of parchment. As he continued to finish the various tasks that would be laid before him, he would notice a Pamphlet that he would pick. As he continued to read the ideals that were placed upon the document a small smile would show on his face. 

 

“It is time that the people of the Holy Orenian Empire were offered views apart from the polarized ideas that have rampaged our lands for far too long. The Centralist point of view? Why that is a view in the people have awaited to see.” 

 

Ledicort would place the Pamphlet down as he reflected over his experiences.

 

“Centralist’s, such ideals that can bring real change and action. Whatever the party or ideology in current standing, compromise and compassion have long been lost to the point. In the past I can recall a time in which Unity may of come to question. I hope that this new line of thinking shall create an era in which the people of the Empire can see real action, real change and progress to move forward.”

[CrownedLime747 162]

53 minutes ago, BenevolentManacles said:

nation within a nation

“That’s literally what the August Empire is, a nation of nations.” Lajos would say, rubbing his forehead. “This is the most nonsensical thing I’ve seen since I’ve came back.”

[Mister_Gavin 567]

The Old Lorrainian sipped wine in front of a blazing hearth while he read the most recent bit of nonsense from Helena,

“Sic semper tyrannis.”

He chuckled as he fed the pamphlet to the fire,

“Power hungry pompous politicians attempting to collect personal power in the name of the ‘greater good of The Empire,’ . . . a tale as old as time.”

[osumanduas 1442]

The Count of Rochefort shakes his head: “At least our two parties have for themselves real policies in their manifestos, ‘the Diet legislates?’ come on now.”

[jmeatball 62]

Doctor Morgryn picked up the pamphlet and read through it: ”A new political party? How admirable” he smiled, then commenting ”perhaps it is time for a change” he shrugged and set it down, returning to his book.