Originally posted by Chief Engineer Erax: Pax, I'm going to pull a Pax on you (in a friendly way, no offense intended) :
I can imagine someone in America around, say, 1770, defending King George this way :
quote: Blue-sky wishful thinking won't change reality, no matter HOW hard you try to malign the tyrannical aspect of monarchy.
But, not ALL monarchs are tyrants (George III was also likely not well, which might explain some of his treatment of the colonies). Monarchs come, and monarchs go ...