We Have Our Own Spoiled "Royals": Corporations

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.alternet.org/economy/150779/we_have_our_own_spoiled_royals_corporations


Some people have argued that Americans love British royals because we don't have their own real thing. Except we do: corporations are our ruling class.


According to polls, only about 6 percent of Americans are following with any close attention the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. But that’s not stopping the media fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with American’s supposed fascination with Britain’s royals.

“Royal wedding reminds us why we tossed Brits,” ran one letter to a local paper recently. That exorbitant $80 million spent on a medieval style ritual in time of twenty-first-century austerity. It’s shameful. It’s Old World. It’s just what Americans fought a revolutionary war to throw off.

And then there are the folks like Rupert Cornwall at the UK Independent who argue that people in the US love British royals precisely because they don’t have their own real thing. Gary Younge at The Nation noted that even his liberal friends wanted to know what he, a British citizen, thought of the prince marrying a “commoner.” Please.

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[cali]

1. corporations are the ruling class everywhere- including in the UK

[kestrel91316]

2. Corporations, and Two-Percenters.