The more things change, the more they stay the same. The monarch’s are dead but the wannabe monarchs have taken their place. The snooty, classist culture of the European kings has been passed down to the present day. The socialists are just a modern day version of the suck ups in the royal courts.
Another thing that shows how things don’t really change— socialism which is supposed to liberate the ordinary person is just a modern day form of feudalism. During the feudal times, the government, which was the lord of the manor, decided how much of a serf’s labor belonged to the serf and how much belonged to the lord. Today people work for their socialist governments which have become the new feudal lords. Of course the new feudal lords take more and more of the serf’s meager earnings while living high off the hog.
What is the difference between a right wing dictator and a left wing dictator? Batista was the right wing dictator of Cuba. He lived in a palace, the people were poor and everyone feared him. Today Castro is dictator of Cuba, he lives in a palace, the people are poor and everyone fears him. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Actually, Batista was not right wing. He was a leftist/populist who instituted many government work, literacy, and health care programs. And Cuba was not poor, it was the richest nation in the Caribbeam, with huge foreign immigration.
FYI, Cuba had never had a right wing govt. Just left, further left, and.communist.
I grew up in Cuba in the '60s. The Cubans said Batista was bad, but Castro was in a whole 'nother class. Batista was an amateur.
You are correct — the Europeans and especially the French still believe in the aristocratic order.
That is why many Europeans look down on Americans as a bunch of uncivilized cowboys. And why Liberals here love them so much.
One way to deflate this arrogance is to remind them that we Americans had to intervene in two “European” Wars last century and that Germany systematically murdered millions of people. The so called civilized Europe isn't that civilized.
The best of Europe left during the exoduses over the past couple of centuries. The heartiest and most motivated people left and came to the US and we appreciated the freedom and the opportunities that our culture and economic system offered.