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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by afavour on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:35AM (#32810952)
This is part of the reason why I'm agnostic towards the royal family: I simply have no faith that the process to replace the monarchy would result in something better. I guess I'm claiming my membership of the "better things aren't possible" party here but I'm imagining such a vacuum at the head of state level would be filled with something politically motivated that would be to the detriment of most.
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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by pjc50 on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:49AM (#32811165)
> the "better things aren't possible" party

Very popular in the UK. We don't like to imagine that things could be different, let alone better. The monarchy represents the eternal status quo, which is deemed "apolitical" because it's always been like that.

I'm a soft republican on this: the monarchy obviously has no place in a truly egalitarian society, but on the other hand its practical impact, positive or negative, is pretty small. The House of Lords, the voting system(s) and the constitutional settlement of devolution are far more pressing issues.

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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by dontlaugh on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:21AM (#32811705)
The same revolutionary movement resulting in workers gaining state power is necessary for any of those changes. In practice it is the same struggle and it's useful to build as large an alliance as possible.
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