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American conservatism circa 1776
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I recall many discussions that conservatives want a King. It's the control structure that makes sense to their brains. They essentially crave a King.
Can we just let them have a pretend king while the rest of us enjoy a nice democratic republic?
That's what celebrities are.
That's how we got a reality TV host as a president.
You had one of those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life, how have I never heard of this absolute legend of a man?
I live on the other end of the country and I'd heard of him, so that's on you.
I think that one expired
this is literally what we do in scandinavia, we have a king/queen who might technically actually have fewer rights than regular people (which can of course simply be solved by abdicating) since they can't really do anything "political", and they just go around doing PR.
Works pretty well IMO, of course it feels a little bit shit that they get all kinds of luxury for being born royal, but hey, it satisfies a lot of monarchists and is otherwise basically meaningless so why not.
Kinda what the UK does, too, isn't it? I think I'm starting to understand why the tradition persists. Decoy monarch.
sort of, almost
the UK monarch has a bit more power/freedom, like the current king has pushed for people to eat more lamb and stuff which is.. a bit strange for a figurehead to do. Like it'd be less weird if he'd pushed for better healthcare or something..
I don't think the UK monarch is bad as it stands, but i think the position could do with a bit more neutering.
Anyways the actual political system in the UK is a way bigger issue, it's a god damn clown show on every level and it's a minor miracle that people managed to vote for a PM that seems vaguely reasonable.
What, you don't like lamb?
i have no strong feelings one way or the other, i just don't think the figurehead of a nation should be shilling a specific kind of product.
they should be utterly boring and inoffensive, their job is to be boring and inoffensive and refrain from uttering anything vaguely political or controversial.
Sucks that lamb is political.
I say we let the South break off and build a nice big wall to keep them out of the ~~rich~~ blue states. With all the money we'll save by not supporting them anymore, we could develop a kick ass system for taking in refugees escaping from the South.