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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Shallow. The UK has been free of monarchy for longer than we have, as a practical matter. In fact, a thousand years from now historians will recognize that the Americal Revolution was just the climax of a long road climbed by Britons for millenea. This is the irony: because the UK restored free enterprise and civil liberties absent from our world since Julius Caesar without having to kill its royalty, it never had to kill its royalty and they still live as ornaments.
UK's experimentation with socialism and abridgement of civil liberties (still ongoing) is actually a cautionary tale for us. We and our mother country are comparable, indeed of a piece, in our historical fight agains authoritarianism. When Hitler, Stalin, Marx, etc. railed agaisnt the filthy, materialistic capitalist nations (as Waters' and Lebowski's friends the Islamofacists do now), they were primarily talking about Great Britain, though GB's maturing and restless offspring to the west loomed large.
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LOL. The UK has been free of monarchy? I know you have been there....did you happen to look at the coins? the stamps? The palace in the middle of Westminster? Where does the Queen get the dosh to buy all those hats? The entire royal family basically lives off the dole.
From a legal perspective, yes I agree that the royals are mere symbols. From a financial perspective, they are the biggest welfare cases in Europe.
Next time you run into the Queen, refuse to bow. See how well that goes over with the general population. You will quickly see how far Europe has truly strayed from its dynastic origins.