Been 3 years and I still think about this from time to time. Sooooo many boohoos over a monarchist 🙄

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      The president is more equivalent to the prime minister than the queen. I think the American equivalent of the queen dying would be more like if a significant portion of the ruling class died… So like if: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet etc. all died at the same time…

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      But Queen Elizabeth was not “former” queen. What would happen if a President would die (of natural causes) on the job?

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        Formerly, there’d be an outpouring like JFK if it was dramatic enough, but no pomp and circumstance on the scale of the Queen.

        Now? It would be a shitshow divided by party affiliation :/

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          Scale it considering that a president is appointed for 4 years, a monarch for life. Overall, I don’t find it weird that people need time to mourn when their political system gets a good shake…

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            when their political system gets a good shake…

            What shake? UK didn’t even had a small succession crisis, not even a tiny civil war