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Nobody is being compelled to stand in that line. They're not shutting the country down, they might shut down part of the Government, of which She was the head.

Nobody is being compelled to stand in that line. They're not shutting the country down, they might shut down part of the Government, of which She was the head. We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. We also have State funerals for select people.

krapp 4y ago
>We have pomp and ceremony when our head of government changes in the US. I don't agree with it here, either, but at least our heads of state are ostensibly normal citizens and don't claim power by divine right or purity of noble blood. In the context of a funeral for royalty, the spectacle just seems more implicitly degrading. But that's just my opinion - I despise aristocracy of any stripe. Seeing stories about people's cancer treatments being cancelled and rescheduled, schools and businesses shutting down, police snatching people off the street for any form of protest against the King, a multi-billion dollar cost to the taxpayer which the royals could easily have paid out of pocket, etc. makes the whole thing seem like an exercise in class humiliation.