I stand with Canada

In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, even Americans who had been against getting involved in the war and didn't much care for FDR generally rallied to the war effort.

I hope everyone in the USA, whether Democrat or Republican or neither, realizes that that kind of national unity is gone forever and is never coming back. Probably its last gasp was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 (even _I_ agreed to sing, for the only time in my life, the American words to "My Country 'Tis of Thee" once at the fire station near Juilliard), but Bush squandered that with the stupid Iraq war.

While as far as I know no conventional war is planned, it looks like the current US government, if it can be called that, is determined on economic "war" with Canada.

I don't know what I can actually do, but I am unapologetic in siding at least in my heart with Canada, even if that makes me objectively an "enemy" of the USA, though in this case I suspect many Americans whose politics are more conventional than mine will agree with me.

The United States of America is an abomination, conceived in treason and lies. It never should have come into existence. All of the modern world's other problems can be traced in a sense to the errors of 1776. This includes certain contemporary problems in Europe that smug Americanists make fun of, because after World War II, of which the only true victors were the USA and the USSR, essentially American ideas of what it means to be a citizen of a particular country were imported into much smaller and hitherto relatively homogenous European countries totally ill-suited for them where they did much more damage than they have done in the USA.

Trump is a crude buffoonish malignant egomaniac, but ultimately Americanism is the problem.

God Save the King.

Angelfire difficulties

In case I still have any readers here, who are also familiar with my www.royaltymonarchy.com website that I've maintained since September 2000, I wanted to let you know that for about a month it has been almost impossible to get into Angelfire to edit and at the moment the site does not seem to be accessible at all. This also affects Paul Theroff's Online Gotha, one of the royalty sites on which I am most reliant for genealogy, so it's not just me. I am not sure what to do as two help requests have gone unanswered and Lycos do not offer phone support. I hope a solution can be found.

Separate the Crown?

For a long time I resisted this idea, and at heart I still believe in the shared Commonwealth Crown (after all I live in Texas and have no problem considering myself loyal to King Charles III, but I'm weird), but recent events have forced me to consider whether a monarch descended from the previous sovereigns but who actually lived in Ottawa might be able to serve Canadian loyalism better (with the same idea applied to Canberra and Wellington). Perhaps Princess Charlotte could take Canada (the senior Dominion), Prince Louis Australia, and one of Prince Edward's children New Zealand? The UK would probably want to keep one or two "spares" around though until such time as Prince George marries and has children.

I hate to say this but the Caribbean is probably a lost cause. Not sure about Papua New Guinea.

The problem is that I doubt there's enough support for this idea to be feasible, and there's no guarantee the young royals would be interested. While this is painful to me to admit, to a certain extent the monarchies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have survived on the lazy principle of "if it ain't broke don't fix it," and the "fix" that ideological monarchists want may not be the "fix" that everyone else wants.