Comments on: Mobocracy Vs. Monarchy

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:35:25 +0000

People should leave the royals alone. They are a symbol and do no harm. The UK is such a bolloxed up mess the excesses of the royal family are hardly front burner issues.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 May 2011 12:39:15 +0000

The Royals really are the original reality show if you think about it. The UK has Queen Liz, Prince Charles, and Kate and William and we have the Snooki, The Situation & the Kardashian sisters. There’s are more expensive, I admit, but ours make me want to stab my own eyes out and floss my nostrils with barbed wire.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:01:28 +0000

So Willie Windsor is a chopper pilot!!! I was at a meeting in South America (that is, Alabama) with his countymen, some very-northern north Americans, fellow Americans, and some blokes from Kangaroo and Kiwi country talking about protecting chopper pilots from attacks from ground ordnance. I started my talk by remembering that next year marks the bicentennial of our abortive attempt to “liberate our oppressed northern brethren from the yoke of the Evil Empire” and that back then, our “threat ordnance signature measurement group” was led by Francis Scott Key who characterized the ordnance as “rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air”.

Anyway, I think we’ve gotten along better since then! But those other folk have very funny accents (as does Ilana Mercer!).

[LOL. It sounds like they got a Myron mouthful.]

By: sunny black

sunny black — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:52:30 +0000

“People should leave the royals alone. They are a symbol of a once great, though imperfect, society.”
-Exactly. Once *notable* and imperfect societies are above reproach. They should be preserved and gawked at. Royalty is akin to a living, breathing wax museum. A testimony (and reminder) to the narcissism of believing that a privileged few with no particular skill and talent should be revered like demigods for all eternity. Like the Kardashians.

And when we look back on this period of Royal resurgence historians will dub the Prince William dynasty: Hair Restoration!

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:29:42 +0000

People should leave the royals alone. They are a symbol of a once great, though imperfect, society.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:28:56 +0000

It took the English Monarchy well over a thousand years to reduce England to the state of the United States; which did it in a mere two hundred. I think if you want to destroy a country, Mobocracy is the way to go.

By: MeMyselfI

MeMyselfI — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:40:04 +0000

“Her role is purely ceremonial.”

Sure, *her’s* is… but what if the next guy’s isn’t “ceremonial”. Like Obama changing the rules to fit his desires… this would be easier for a monarch.

No, not that the mob is any better… just… different.