The King & Queen stuff still sucks to high heaven.
I thought we were finished with such nonsense after 1914. But some are still stupid enough to defend it here.
Headshake!
Will walk out my front door and smell the air of freedom. Yes, I live in rural America. In what is still Texas.
Well said.
I’m not probably as anti-royalist as you. There have been good kings down thru the centuries. A constitutional monarchy is pretty much the same as out system.
An absolute monarch can be equally as good a governor of his people and protector of their rights. The problem is of course that such a system is utterly dependent on the character and abilities of the monarch. As such, it is the exact inverse of our system of checks and balances to limit the damage any one man or group can do.
In theory the most perfect form of government is a benevolent dictatorship or absolute monarchy. The best man in the country put in absolute control.
The problem of course is that the monarch is very rarely the best man in the country, and seldom even a good one. And even when he is, he inevitably dies and is succeeded by a man who is even less likely to be good.
Many Americans seem to have an odd hankering for monarchy. One of my favorite writers has produced several series in which monarchies are favorably portrayed. I don’t really get it.
But then one of my pet peeves is when Americans refer in this country refer to foreign nobility visiting here by their titles. I admire “Lord Black” and “Lord Monckton,” but as far as I’m concerned when in America they’re Conrad Black and Chris Monckton.
If I ever visit Britain I’ll try to follow their rules of etiquette, as a courtesy, but imo they should do the same when they come here.