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Is it safe to come out now?
The events of the past week have deeply concerned me. Seemingly rational friends acting as though they had just lost a grandparent or a close family member. What is it about our country that leads people to such an irrational position?
The endless royal commentators telling us about how the nation has come together in mourning is nasty and divisive gas-lighting. My estimate is that around a third of the country has gone bonkers, a third is increasingly republican and a third are wondering who the fuck this man was and what does it have to do with them. The idea that "everyone" is mourning is designed to "other" those of us who are not in the flock. We are somehow not of this nation; not part of this country. Subjects of no one; citizens of nowhere.
This country will never be a nation of equal opportunities while we have a monarchy and all their hangers on.