fear-mongering quislings that are financed by the Kremlin.
The air force is very weak? As the only country with a 5th Gen Air superiority fighter???
The navy is weak with what 9 super carriers that dwarf everyone else's carriers?
Admittedly China does have more ships numerically and that is a concern for the USN.
What kind of clowns came up with this?
Well, that's the rub - the EU, the UK, the US (and _obviously_ Russia) all have utterly dysfunctional systems that barely merit the descriptor 'democratic' (in Russia's case, it doesn't merit it at all). Be hard put to get a cigarette paper between the first three in that regard. They're all crap and intended to minimise the influence of ordinary people. There's a lot more cant and propaganda around the US one, though, just because it's written in very flowery language.
Well we had good English teachers.
I would argue what London has is unique and represents a special kind of dysfunction, the kind you get when you have a democracy forced to accommodate both a monarchy and the CoE. Neither the EU nor the States have an analog to that... situation.
I just LOVED everything you said in this post! 👍Strange thing about having an established church. It is on one level, completely absurd, and perpetually annoying.
We even have places in the legislature guaranteed for representatives of the church. Don't know if it's changed (as they've since introduced the 'national curriculum) but when I was at school religious education was the _only_ subject all schools were legally compelled to teach.
One third of state schools are religious ones, that are allowed to discriminate with regard to both pupil admission and teacher's employment on the basis of religious purity. It is utterly absurd.
Yet at the same time it seems to go hand-in-hand with an absence of religious fervour in the population (I remember an old TV sitcom joke where someone says "I'm not religious, I'm C of E"). While the US situation seems to be the exact reverse - scrupulous attention to keeping any hint of religion out of the state, accompanied by ever-growing political power for those of the 'right' religion.
Go figure.
The monarchy is equally ridiculous, but I don't think it's a lot worse than the power of the Supreme Court in the US, and at least we don't have to constantly try and divine the wishes and beliefs of elite people who are long dead in order to decide what to do about every new issue that comes up - something that seems to be a fundamental part of the US system.
At least our over-venerated self-serving racists are still breathing.
Strange thing about having an established church. It is on one level, completely absurd, and perpetually annoying.
We even have places in the legislature guaranteed for representatives of the church. Don't know if it's changed (as they've since introduced the 'national curriculum) but when I was at school religious education was the _only_ subject all schools were legally compelled to teach.
One third of state schools are religious ones, that are allowed to discriminate with regard to both pupil admission and teacher's employment on the basis of religious purity. It is utterly absurd.
Yet at the same time it seems to go hand-in-hand with an absence of religious fervour in the population (I remember an old TV sitcom joke where someone says "I'm not religious, I'm C of E"). While the US situation seems to be the exact reverse - scrupulous attention to keeping any hint of religion out of the state, accompanied by ever-growing political power for those of the 'right' religion.
Go figure.
The monarchy is equally ridiculous, but I don't think it's a lot worse than the power of the Supreme Court in the US, and at least we don't have to constantly try and divine the wishes and beliefs of elite people who are long dead in order to decide what to do about every new issue that comes up - something that seems to be a fundamental part of the US system.
At least our over-venerated self-serving racists are still breathing.
Well there is a democratic element to the SCOTUS. They rely on nominations from election winners, then are confirmed by Senate vote. Quite a ways off from "position by birth," no?