I know that Breitbart News are Republicans. I also assumed they were republicans.
It seems I was wrong.
If Breitbart absolutely want king George back, I´m sure something can be arranged...
Charles III takes coronation oath on Holy Bible
No Sleepy Joe at King Charles´ coronation
Please note that the coronation was as "woke" as possible for a tradition-laden British coronation, and yet Breitbart decides to go full Benedict Arnold here and scream "God save the King". LOL.
ReplyDelete'Uncle Joe' doesn't have an array of medals and ribbons to wear, nor is the US of A a current or former Commonwealth of Great Britain. But yeah, one would think Breitbart would side with the Anti-Royalists. Nope, since the MAGAs have no platform other than hating everyone who interferes with White Supremacist Christian domination ( check out what laws State legislatures have passed recently) and totally ignoring Jesus' admonitions (i.e. the Sermon on the Mount and on the Plain) it stands to reason that Breitbartism would include homage to the "King" - not Elvis! But...I think it is somehow a singularity in human thought that there "shall be" one regent, Chief, King or ruler of your choice to subjugate and Tax the beJesus (my bad) out of the Masses. In other words, a democracy takes too much work!
ReplyDeleteAccording to Swedish TV, US presidents never attend European coronations, so Joe Biden was simply following standard protocol (although I suppose times might have changed so much that he maybe should have attended - most European monarchies are pretty defanged these days). The irony with Breibart is that they had a kind of "line" under Bannon, but since his departure, they don´t really know what to say anymore, which has led them to publish both pro-Neo-Con articles on Afghanistan (some even sounded pro-refugee), pro-vaccine articles (most of their readers are presumably anti-vaxx), and now pro-monarchy ones. Show must go on!
ReplyDeleteIn the Bible, God himself tells the Israelites that they shouldn´t have a king since the king would enslave them, but when the Israelites insist, he sends Samuel to anoint Saul the first king of Israel. Imagine the scene: the people of Israel lobbying God to give them an authoritarian ruler!
ReplyDeleteThe "republican" passages in the Bible were of course used by Cromwell and the Puritans during the English Civil War. I assume the royalists preferred David and Solomon...
ReplyDeleteIn Catholicism, the last Sunday of the liturgical year is Jesus Christ: King of the Universe. One is to believe 1) God is the fatherly King who sits on the throne 2) Jesus sits at "the right hand of the Father" presumably as sub-regent and 3) the reciprocal love between them issues forth as the Holy Spirit, hence a triune God. Of course, 'it's a mystery!' Ooops! Where's the woman? Mary gets wedged in there as a special envoy who always has Jesus' ear and will relay baptized Christians prayers directly to him.
ReplyDeleteMy point being the monarchical system, obviously held over from the middle ages, is used to assuage the fears of the faithful, in a way, abandoning self responsibility (and hence guilt?)
An opiate as Marx rightly observed.
Cornell published an interesting sociolological study in 2020:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/10/religion-less-opiate-more-suppressant-study-finds
Will check.
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