The King’s S-S-Speech
30th November 2010
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
The King’s Speech illustrates G. K. Chesterton’s 1905 insight that hereditary kingship is “in essence and sentiment democratic because it chooses from mankind at random. If it does not declare that every man may rule, it declares the next most democratic thing; it declares that any man may rule.” Colin Firth portrays that “anyman” as King George VI (reigned 1936-1952), father of the current queen, a man who was callously raised as the unimpressive spare to the glamorous heir, his older brother Edward VIII.
And Edward VIII was the Barack Obama of his day, a self-centered narcissist who just couldn’t understand why he couldn’t have everything his way. As result he quit when the going got tough, and stuck his brother with a thankless job for which he had no preparation and even less inclination, but in which he stepped up to the plate and hit a home run despite impressive odds.