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Originally Posted by Glice
I think the anarchist line of criticism in economic terms is misled. Yes, it's pricey, in terms of outlay. But a cursory awareness of economics would suggest that it's generating a massive income in discrete means. It was syndicated worldwide for TV. That's millions of pounds for the British economy. They say the average London tourist puts £100 into the economy in a day - so several thousand tourists for the wedding alone would account for several million pounds of return. It's a similar thing to the pro-immigrant argument - for every immigrant, there are jobs created (they need clothes, food, shelter and recreation, all monies returned to the state somewhere along the lines).
So my worry is that the left, and the hard-left, are playing into pro-market dialogues, dialogues from which they're classically left out and shouted down. Where's the ideological upset? It's definitely there, but as a subterfuge to the criticism rather than as its central focus. I'm pretty partisan in the whole thing, and like suchfriends I quite enjoy the pageantry in an indistinctly committed way, but it's worrying how the objection has come in liberal economic terms rather than something with more teeth.
Sorry, bit of a serious post there. It's finished now, you can return to whatever you were doing.
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agreed. that is very endemic problem with politics, they are socially driven and thus far more fickle than pragmatic. Here in the US, the rightists are also hypocritically claiming fiscal conservativism as the defensive for their blind-siding attack on social services, but in reality it is purely ideological (and also inherently racist considering from its very beginning up to this moment class/economics in the US is entirely driven and dictated by ethnic circumstances).
They have so voiciferously altered the public debate, that even leftists can accept cutting $500,000,000 from the federal aid program titled Women, Infants, and Children with a fucking straight face. For shame!! The social dynamics of politics always muzzle the real debate and distract us from the real issues with erratic sensationalism.
No American, be it at the bus stop or the water cooler, be it at the White House or the Capitol building, even remotely suggests ending the war(s) across the globe which cost a staggering $250,000,000,000 a
year (and that is just on the books let alone the side-bets!!) It honestly doesn't even enter into anyone's common vocabulary. Pacifism is literally dead in the water here in the contemporary US, in fact many folks view you menacingly if you are still anti-war. We have war protests across the country all the time, they are worthless. They get no media coverage, no social attention, no respect, no heeding. I don't even bother, not because I am apathetic, but because it is actually a dangerously vulnerable situation, I'd rather maintain a guerrilla information campaign everywhere I'm at.
God Save the Queen, but it is true that a revered figure has no honor in their own country and amongst their own people
