Well, yes, actually. I spend very little actual time on here (or any other forum, for that matter) except when I have something specific to reply to. If you weren't blindly insulting me and making assumptions about my life and motivations with every post, I might be more inclined to have a discussion and reiterate what I've already said elsewhere. As things stand though, I feel it would be completely pointless considering you've already clearly made up your mind about me.
"If you say so.
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Also, hate to be pedantic but no one generation can 'own' a cause. I can hold and express whatever political views I damn well choose. I wouldn't do so in such a public and, lets face it, judgmental arena if I didn't mean it.
Well, I suppose, if you've got nothing substantive to say about the political outrage that is monarchical dictatorship, or about the economic injustice arising from royal wealth, then pedantry might be all you have to fall back on. It's okay, I understand: you had to think of
something to say by way of response. Still, it's encouraging to see that you can compensate for your lack of political consciousness with an understanding of the possessive apostrophe. Well done.
Anyway, let me clarify what I meant by saying that you were, "co-opting other people's - other generations' - causes." I meant that opposition to monarchy is a perfectly honourable stand to take ... if you've transported yourself back in time to, say, the seventeenth century, or if you happen to live in, for example, contemporary Saudi Arabia. In modern Britain, however, anti-royal sentiment is largely the preserve of comparatively well-heeled people (e.g. Morrissey) who demand to be seen to be opponents of an inegalitarian status quo, but in a safe way that poses no threat to their own relative privilege.
The British monarchy has no meaningful political power and, as I've already pointed out, costs you less than £1 a year. Whether or not you're sincere in the opinions you've expressed, as an avowed republican, you have no cause.
