Fen CJust in case anyone's unclear as to my position on this anachronistic bullsh:t pageantry.
StuartB@fencoul
In a functioning democracy, how can a person acquire a job because they can show direct line of descent from a warlord roving around Europe almost 1000 years ago.
How did he get the job?
He was his mother's eldest child.
She got the job because she was her father's eldest child.
He got the job because his brother quit.
He got the job because he was his father's eldest child.
It goes back like that, with occasional detours, for 960 years.
In a functioning democracy, how can a person acquire a job because they can show direct line of descent from a warlord roving around Europe almost 1000 years ago.
How did he get the job?
He was his mother's eldest child.
She got the job because she was her father's eldest child.
He got the job because his brother quit.
He got the job because he was his father's eldest child.
It goes back like that, with occasional detours, for 960 years.
@fencoul
No one voted for him, no one was allowed to vote for an alternative, the sole requirement for the job wasn't any actual ability but rather being the eldest son of the previous Monarch.
How is this possible in a functioning democracy?
Oh, wait...
No one voted for him, no one was allowed to vote for an alternative, the sole requirement for the job wasn't any actual ability but rather being the eldest son of the previous Monarch.
How is this possible in a functioning democracy?
Oh, wait...
Mark Mason👆 He has a high level of soft political power and influence. That's not the same as none. He weilds it unconstrained, exactly as he personally sees fit.
(The one that abdicated would've used it to support the NAZIs, for example = the holocaust.)
👆 So? You started out saying he didn't have *any*...