GunshipDemocracy: ‘
Why for exmaple any of "free media and liberal" never say anything about private lives of royal family in UK?’
Because the private lives of our royals are beyond reproach. They walk with angels, and carry an SA80.
Jesting aside, Rupert Murdoch is a republican and his newspapers rarely hesitate to push their anti-royal agenda. The rest of the Yellow Press or
Lügenpresse—even the supposedly right wing Daily Mail—eagerly print a scandal (military, royal, etc.) rather than investigate if it has any foundation. What royal ‘scandals’ there have been of late gain little traction simply because there is no substance to them.
Were any of the more serious tales (assiduously promoted on internet boards by people who can barely find Britain on a map let alone Buckingham Palace) ever proved to have a basis in reality, it would not even matter: the errant individual would be stripped of their titles and soon as good as forgotten; even if on the throne, they would be forced to abdicate in favour of a convenient relative. E.g. Edward VIII, insisting on marrying a frumpy Yank divorcée, was required to abdicate in favour of his brother. E.g. James II was chased from his throne after his various transgressions enumerated in the Bill of Rights, his eldest daughter taking his place.
Russia also found ways around inconvenient Tsars, albeit more ruthless, as in the fates of Peter III (1762) and Paul I (1801)—although we also dispatched one or two in our time, e.g. Edward II in 1327 (the regicide of Charles the Martyr by the charlatan and hypocrite Cromwell does not count).
(Btw, there was a moment when Britain and Russia might have united in a Union of Crowns that would have relegated the union of the Crowns of Scotland and England to a mere footnote of history. In 1839, the heir to the Russian throne visited Britain and met our new queen, and Victoria and Alexander were very taken with each other.
Very taken. Unfortunately for our two nations, Tsar Nicholas did not appreciate the historic opportunity this presented and forbade the match, directing Alexander to return to Darmstadt and marry a minor German noble (here is the Tsar surveying the land that the marriage gained for Russia). Maj. ref. Radzinsky, Edvard.
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar, translated by Antonia W. Bouis, 2005.)
One of the many advantages of the monarchic system that republicans fail to grasp is that the monarchy is greater than any individual, as exemplified by the cry upon a monarch’s passing: ‘The King is dead, long live the King!’ The mortal dies but royalty endures.
We recognise that Man is imperfect, ‘fallen’, and our loyalty is to the
institution (‘
Le roi est mort, vive le roi!’) and what it represents—
not the individual. It is republicans and democrats who build personality cults around such as Obama, HRC and Trump.
There
are cover-ups going on in the UK—right across Western Civilisation in fact. There are people being arrested and even jailed for criticising people—and again, right across the West. But it’s nothing to do with any royalty. Railing against monarchy is just so 1640s.
As for twitter, it’s been censorship central for some time (and it’s a long way from being just about Russia)—along with facebook and any platform with Gulag behind it. There are a few imitators—‘twitter/facebook/youtube without the censorship’—but half the fun of the old platforms was tweaking the noses of the opposition and maybe, just occasionally, causing them doubt. The various established SM platforms are increasingly SJW echo-chambers and the alternatives are echo-chambers of a different sort and boring as all hell.
Social media is effectively dead. It was fun for a while but its day is over.
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