…though only in spirit. To respond to my right honorable friend regarding my monarchist proclivities I can only say that I am involved in no active plot to return this fair land to rule by the Crown as much as I might be actively praying for regime change. But I am at the moment sipping a cup of English Breakfast and were a bit of tax on this cup to return the rule of our fair land to some semblance of sanity I would gladly offer it up.
In all seriousness though, I have worked for the government for the better part of the last decade and even on the state and local level I am thoroughly convinced that something is amiss. Were I to have had my head in the ground the entire time and not have seen the events on the world stage brought about by our ruling class I would, as a result of what I have seen on the state and local level, still be advocating for an alternative. And so I submit the following from Robert E. Lee via the Axegrinder and Rublev’s Dog:
“The consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all that have preceded it.”
