RE: Is this a UK based website?
July 17, 2013 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2013 at 9:43 am by Creed of Heresy.)
To be fair, Deist, we venerate the Founding Fathers because they built our country. And they instated a system of government that despite its flaws is actually pretty damn good. And has potential to be even greater, if we Americans would just get our heads out of our own asses and start ACTUALLY looking at what the government does instead of relying on sound bites to make up our opinions. Actually, I think that IS starting to happen more often. Lotta people are pissed over the NSA wiretapping thing, but to my supreme annoyance, they're MORE pissed about the Zimmerman ruling. Cuz THAT makes sense; let's get butthurt over something that affects nobody but not about the thing where all of our privacy is being unconstitutionally violated...*rolls eyes*
Anyway. My point is that the Founding Fathers got shit done and that's why they're respected. Historically the royal family got shit done, too, but nowadays they ARE irrelevant. If we had a Founding Father Dynasty or something I'd probably have long since stopped paying attention to them because they DON'T get shit done. The modern royal family sits around sipping tea and talking about the weather or something. Oh and they get married occasionally. Woop dee fuckin' doo. And this fascination doesn't just extend to the English, we hear about it in the US for days if not weeks at a time when something utterly trivial comes up.
I think Brian's point is that they do nothing but they cost the British taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to sit around and look pretty. And in that, yeah, I agree; fuck the royal family.
Anyway. My point is that the Founding Fathers got shit done and that's why they're respected. Historically the royal family got shit done, too, but nowadays they ARE irrelevant. If we had a Founding Father Dynasty or something I'd probably have long since stopped paying attention to them because they DON'T get shit done. The modern royal family sits around sipping tea and talking about the weather or something. Oh and they get married occasionally. Woop dee fuckin' doo. And this fascination doesn't just extend to the English, we hear about it in the US for days if not weeks at a time when something utterly trivial comes up.
I think Brian's point is that they do nothing but they cost the British taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to sit around and look pretty. And in that, yeah, I agree; fuck the royal family.
