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It might be worthwhile to withdraw your head from all that uncritically accepted jingoistic nonsense and look at the world.

What has spread around the world are the principles of the French Revolution and the European parliamentary tradition.

And lots of better countries than the USA have a powerless monarch as head of state. It saves money and provides a more continuous symbol of the nation.

The only thing comparable in the USA is that badly designed fetish rag that is plastered everywhere and which is so absurdly a symbol of idolatry and irrational hysteria.