Barbara Walters Disses Queen Elizabeth: Does She Have a 'Sour Face'?

You are watching the last vestiges of monarchical privilege. That's not a thing of beauty. It's pomp that was used to convince the lower classes that these people were god's representatives on earth and full of power so they would not rebel against political theft (taxation). When democracy was introduced, they still kept the majority of their privilege and the booty they had confiscated throughout the centuries. Over time they have lost much of the official power, but they retained most of the money, significant portions of land and apparently the undeserved awe that kept the lower classes peacefully subservient.

With democracy, you have very little change insofar as the political class still resides in comparative opulence to those who are coerced to provide their easy lives. The lower classes may vote for a ruler but what they cannot ever choose is not to have a ruler and not to be compelled to hand over a significant portion of their earnings (i.e. they must work to feed the political class). The significant difference is that the ones voting believe they make a difference (a horrible lie) and those who are politicians must take more in order to attempt to bribe enough of those voting to vote for them rather than the other guy. The only differences between those who are being voted for is which people the particular politician feels obliged to pay off-and even then, they seem to share the same owners for the most part, with differing degrees of fealty.

As to your comments about Obama, he's no less a parasite than any other politician-past present and future-and he's only the worst until the next one comes along. My choice would be to see them shut the doors to DC, have all the politicians return to their homes, find productive employment and stop taking their living from the people who actually work. Politicians aren't just useless, they are a drain on the economy and a danger to the community over which they preside and to the rest of the world-as were the monarchs that preceded them. I'm against all socialism, not just Obama's. War is just as socialist as social security, corporate bailouts, personal and corporate welfare (subsidies), medicare/Obamacare, etc. Any time you take money by force from others to pay for public goods and services, you're adhering to socialism. You are enslaving your fellow to pay for the things you want. That is immoral.

If you wish to provide an easy living for politicians, be they Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Peace and Freedom, Constitutional Party, Green Party or Communist Party, I would only ask that you do so with your own money and stop believing that it's moral to compel your neighbors and those you do not know to surrender the fruits of their labor as well. Let the politicians and bureaucrats earn a living like the rest of us, not by force, but through voluntary trade, creating goods and rendering services people choose to purchase.