Originally Posted by
Richard Dangle
We will have to agree to differ. The OP is boring...the drift is where the interest lies (IMO).
Comparing the UK and US political systems is pointless. They are apples and oranges; chalk and cheese. They have to be...the autonmy and suffrage of all fifty states is enshrined in the constitution. We are nothing like them...maybe if we had stayed in the EU we might have "gone there", but that really is a derail
Describing medieval monarchs as "brutal murderers" is a bit sixth form. Anybody who was in charge of anything had to have "brutal murderer" on their CV. Monarchs, popes, archbishops, lords (and not forgetting the fairer sex, Queens and the Ladies) they were all chopping off heads with gay abandon and often in the cause of peace. Pacifist, peaceful monarchs usually had the reverse effect (Henry VI would be a "arguable" example)
arguable because all history is arguable
I did not compare the US & UK political systems.
My point about "brutal murders" was meant to demonstrate that royals are nobodies, they were just descendants of whoever had the greatest luck in killing their way to the top and the greatest urge to be the boss.
No altruism, no service, no 'for the good of the people'.
Fast forward 1,000 years and we still have their descendants on the throne. We adorn them with an insane about of riches, privileges and treat them like they are special.
They are in no way special and have zero role
to play in a modern society.