[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Originally Posted by Merry Mockmas

I personally am not really fussed one way or the other with the Royal Family as an institution tbh.

But I do agree with you that the Royal Family bring stability, because the one area where they definitely help with stability for the UK is how many tourists go to London to want to see Buckingham Palace up close.

I wouldn't say that Americans on average judge our culture's stability based on how many people visit the White House. Tourism is not talked about very much in most parts of the US. I've been and I shook the fence when Obama was there. It was a cute moment only I could appreciate. The White House is "just a building", but the building is a place of transition for better or worse and like Christmas, that transition creates something of a holiday spirit. If it didn't have that quality, we would've replaced it with some modern mundane monstrosity much sooner based on whatever feeling we were having at that the time based on trends... we aren't the kind of culture to be get as terribly attached to tradition or even specific ways of thinking contrary to how a butthurt traditional media likes to portray these cultural transitions. It's a mentality that is working against us atm because of the seemingly endless decision fatigue... I see the UK has this effect also, but it's particularly strong in the States without a proper "calmhead".

What represents our interests most? It seems anything we could do could be counterproductive or at least easily undermined by the kinds of conversations decided to create cultural disillusion.

This is off topic, obviously, but I think that having the Royals around, even if they are disliked by half the country. That's a lot of commonality already, even the common disagreement. And even if they do go or the system is "abandoned", it's still going to play a part in that culture for some time as certain habits or way of thinking are more effectively borrowed from the past than out of thin air... that's the problem we're having in America is that we can't invent anything new yet as it has to be borrowed. This is where the pro-immigration argument is strongest, imo.