You could be right about that colonial attitude. But our profits aren’t going to the king or the mother country - so I’m not sure that becoming a republic would solve the problem. Rather, it’s multi-national companies and their rich owners that are getting the value from extracting our wealth. So standing firm against those is probably what we need.
(Becoming a republic makes a lot of sense too - but I don’t think our constitutional monarchy system has much to do with our national wealth being pillaged for external profits of others.)
Wealth from colonies is sent overseas to the owners. Originally English families that had successfully petitioned the crown to get rights to land and wealth, now they are overseas companies.
You could be right about that colonial attitude. But our profits aren’t going to the king or the mother country - so I’m not sure that becoming a republic would solve the problem. Rather, it’s multi-national companies and their rich owners that are getting the value from extracting our wealth. So standing firm against those is probably what we need.
(Becoming a republic makes a lot of sense too - but I don’t think our constitutional monarchy system has much to do with our national wealth being pillaged for external profits of others.)
I suspect the point was more about cultural cringe and presuming that we should fold to our “superiors” rather than determine our own fate and values.
This is a big part of it.
I don’t ever recall a single discussion on what kind of country we should be and how we should serve all who live here.
Wealth from colonies is sent overseas to the owners. Originally English families that had successfully petitioned the crown to get rights to land and wealth, now they are overseas companies.