Posted on 08/08/2013 6:23:57 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Heartbreakingly, the headlines and hashtags of the world over the past few days have been devoted to the royal family’s newest branch on the sordid family tree. This instead of the sickening fact that monarchy still exists in the twenty-first century. It is a tragedy that the idea of monarchy was not banished to out of print dictionaries centuries ago, to serve only as a musty reminder of a barbaric and puerile step in the history of humankind. While I harbor no resentment for the young George Alexander Louis, I find it impossible to muster up even a scrap of empathy or warmth for someone who will live an idle and halcyon life at the expense of Englishmen and their ancestors.
Little George has won the birth lottery, and all of England is stuck with the bill … all of his bills, for the entirety of his life. I don’t think I can stand reading one more thing about the “royal baby”. George is not a royal baby, he is a lucky baby. There is absolutely nothing special or unique about him. If thrown into a daycare’s playground, there would be absolutely nothing that would distinguish him from the layman’s children playing around him, regardless of what he will be told in the privacy of palatial walls.
A family burdened only more by scandal than by ceremony, the members of the Windsor Clan are the most loathsome form of social parasites.
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As Christians I suppose we do believe in a Monarchy, though it’s run by Jesus Christ and is not at all sordid or dysfunctional as human ones.
All things considered, I would prefer an Indian Tribal Council to what we have now.
Someday a British monarch will realize the power at hand and wield it fully.
I’d like to see a Christian king drive the Muslim snakes out of the British Isles.
Could not agree more with the author. It is especially disgusting for Americans of all people to obsess over this illegitimate clan, given how our ancestors fought and died to cast off its yolk.
We spend a lot more on our royal family.
St. Patrick drove out the snakes. St. George took care of the dragons.
Since he just devoted 689 words to them I would say Patrick Kane does.
If he truly did not care he would not devote his finite time to researching and writing about them. But he does. Ergo, he cares. Quite a lot.
Well, that would be a yoke, as in what one would use to harness oxen.
I dont think egg yolks are very oppressive.
As for the king it seems to me that up to a point the Americans were perfectly fine with the concept and even with the incumbent, it was only quite late that things came to a head. A constitutional monarch was not outof the question in the contporary strain of American political philosophy. It was only later that the republican symbolism became fixed.
If the British like the Monarchy why should we care?
It’s really none of our business, just like our gun laws are none of their business.
It’s so funny to watch the morning MSM news readers wet themselves in excitement over the British royalty. One sentence news items become two week vacations by the news readers to report the non-story. I think all the propaganda for the non-stories or one sentence stories is to get two week vacations that they don’t have to pay for and to pay gift taxes on. Not only the many royalty stories, but the Pope, Pope travels, etc.
It’s the Communists who are all about destroying monarchy, nobility, and tradition. The rest of us are pretty much unaffected by the fact that the British hold onto their traditional monarchy, which is an enormous tourist draw and cash cow for them. We don’t harbor resentments from 225 years ago. I always think it’s odd when people who claim to be conservative advocate the end of somebody else’s traditions in somebody else’s country. What could possibly motivate such animosity?
Just take the time to do a side by side comparison of British and French history with respect to monarchies. The British love and are at peace with their history. The French hate their history. One kept theirs, the other destroyed theirs. One has stayed culturally healthy, the other is schizophrenic and culturally confused.
For the sake of Britain’s mental health, they need the monarchy for historical continuity.
Well said
I think you have it all scrambled up. Get the yolk?
Patrick Kane? Sounds like a bloody Paddy Republican to me!
God save the Queen and confusion to her enemies!
“God save the Queen and confusion to her enemies!”
With thanks to Captain Jack Aubrey
200 years ago these people would have been shot on sight in this country
If a country must have a personality cult, better it be focused on a toothless monarch rather than a demagogic politician.
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