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tenderfoot

(8,438 posts) Sat Mar 20, 2021, 12:59 PM Mar 2021

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Heritage Foundation event: "The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy...

"The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy and Undermine a Cornerstone of Western Democracy Will Fail"

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Heritage Foundation event: "The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy... (Original Post) tenderfoot Mar 2021 OP

Is this old? We already did it on Nov. 2. Unless they mean the British monarchy. :) n/t brewens Mar 2021 #1

"Because undermining the monarchy has never been a part of American democracy, apparently." Botany Mar 2021 #2

Monarchy a cornerstone of western what now? kcr Mar 2021 #3

Didn't we already win a war about this? yardwork Mar 2021 #4

The Left? OneBlueDotS-Carolina Mar 2021 #5

Guess they don't get the contradictions between monarchies and democracies malaise Mar 2021 #6

The Conservative Movement: It was all a lie. Dawson Leery Mar 2021 #7

It's difficult to GAS... Postal Grunt Mar 2021 #8

brewens

(13,621 posts)

1. Is this old? We already did it on Nov. 2. Unless they mean the British monarchy. :) n/t

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:05 PM

Mar 2021

Botany

(70,582 posts)

2. "Because undermining the monarchy has never been a part of American democracy, apparently."

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:09 PM

Mar 2021

kcr

(15,320 posts)

3. Monarchy a cornerstone of western what now?

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:09 PM

Mar 2021

yardwork

(61,709 posts)

4. Didn't we already win a war about this?

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:11 PM

Mar 2021

OneBlueDotS-Carolina

(1,385 posts)

5. The Left?

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:14 PM

Mar 2021

It's called republicanism, Algernon Sydney lost his head for the Grand Old Cause in 1683. Heritage folks, look the man up, his Discourses Concerning Government is cited by many of the founding fathers of the US.

Ignorant, uneducated, silly idiots!

malaise

(269,157 posts)

6. Guess they don't get the contradictions between monarchies and democracies

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:16 PM

Mar 2021

Fucking idiots.

They want a US monarchy

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)

7. The Conservative Movement: It was all a lie.

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Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:22 PM

Mar 2021

Most conservatives are tories, wed to order and tradition over true liberty.

Postal Grunt

(218 posts)

8. It's difficult to GAS...

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Sat Mar 20, 2021, 01:27 PM

Mar 2021

about one of the wealthiest families in the world because someone is dunking on them. As my father used to tell me when I was just a lad, "You know what happens to fig wheels? The little dogs piss on them".

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