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| Royal swells |
South of 5 and 20 has always been puzzled by our fellow Americans' fascination with the British royal family. The latest example is our national swoon over the upcoming wedding of Price Somebody and the good looking chick.
We suspect our contrymen's strange obsession could be explained by a lack of basic knowledge on how we, the luckiest people in the history of the earth, came into this unprecedented good fortune. That same royal family, we should recall, exploited our ancestors to the breaking point, causing King George's oppressed subjects to risk everything for the American experiment. At Pajamas Media, Rick Moran shares our concern:
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| Patriot's Farewell, 1776 |
What is it about royalty, especially British royalty, that causes otherwise rational Americans to get all mushy-headed and weepy, not to mention taking a decidedly unrepublican interest in the scandalous doings at the palace?
We might as well call it “King George III’s Revenge” given how much blood we shed to throw off the rule of kings and substitute the rule of law. Poor George never got over the loss of his colonies, going to his death a blind madman. I’m sure he would be comforted to know that the descendants of those rebels now sit in front of TV sets for hours, consumed with getting every last morsel of fact and fiction that can be wrung from stories about the immoral, depraved, and usually silly doings of people whose only claim to fame is that they were born to one of the richest, most dysfunctional families in England.
John Armor relates those long past "times that try men's souls" to our current predicament:
If You Liked King George, You’ll Love Barack Obama
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