- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.org
- cross-posted to:
- europe@feddit.org
The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
archive article: https://archive.is/DxOAv
The entire Press in that country constantly pushes pro-Monarchy messaging and suppresses criticism of the Royals and much more so criticism of the actual system of Monarchy.
Even when the Royals do serious shit and it somehow leaks, it’s always spinned as a just this once mistake that doesn’t at all reflect on the rest, always making sure the reigning monarch is isolated from it.
The way Orban in Hungary makes sure he always wins election by controlling the Press is very much the way the Royals keep their power and money in Britain, with the difference that the latter has been going on for a lot longer than the former.