We do not have inherited power, we have inherited wealth.
Garbage! Of course you do. You may not like it, but it's inevitable. Wealth brings power.
Wealth that is earned, fairly or not, but it is earned.
If wealth is inherited, how is it earned? Obviously it was earned by someone in the past, but not by the person who inherits it, who may or may not be a good custodian of it.
wealth is always subject to the consent of our free people.
You mean the government of the people has the right to simply take it off those who are undeserving of it? Isn't that the politics of envy? I thought we were in favor of fair tax on these boards?
The queen and the royals, by accident of birth, claim dominance over the Brit Parliament and Brit people.
They claim nothing of the kind. The Queen is a constitutional monarch. There is no doubt as to who is actually in charge.
Free Irishmen never put up with it and neither will I.
And they'll force that freedom on everyone else. If people demur, they can just be bombed into agreeing. And given the economic disaster that Eire is, you could ask "Hey, missing Lizzie yet?"
My ancestors paid in blood for every freedom we have and I would never soil their sacrifice with any even symbolic nod towards any king or queen or royals of any kind.
Given the nature of the current encumbent, how's electing your head of State working out?
What is the purpose of a queen on an elevated throne, with her country's elected representatives at her feet, whom bow at her entrance like Obama with the Saudi king, stating "my government" will do this and that, with no tourists about.
That symbolism is an insult to the truly free whose ancestors were brutalized and starved to death by the queen's ancestors. This obsolete symbolic groveling is pathetic and as embarrassing as Obama's behavior.
Inherited wealth offers the potential for power, nothing more. Look at how the Kennedys have faded from political power, with all their inherited money. Any number of the born poor are now in political leadership all over America, that's the way it will always be.
Inherited wealth is earned by accident of birth, all over the world in every society. It's what you do with that wealth that determines what political power you accumulate. I agree that economic power may not be earned by ones individual labor, I am speaking of political leadership.
There is no such thing as a fair tax. All governments consider the ability to pay. But that choice in America is still done by the elected.
Power has no right to be inherited. If there is no doubt who's in charge in Britain at least get the royals out of the Parliament unless they get elected themselves. BTW, why don't they ever run for office?
How has Ireland imposed its will on anyone?
There are many countries struggling financially, that's hardly a call for a monarchy dictatorship.
We make mistakes electorally in America that we get to correct every 4 years. But we the people make them, not a dictator or a ruling class. Obama's election is now seen a mistake by the majority of those that voted for him. But the great symbolism of that election remains, that even our once most abused minority can see one of its own become the most powerful person in the world.
Clinging to symbolism enslaves Brit thinking from allowing that kind of elevation to power. That is the evil of allowing royals to claim social and political superiority, even if it is supposedly for appearances only.