Hellooo. I shall endeavour to explain my views without leaving an essay.
1. I find them irritating because I'm not interested in them and yet they are permeating every discussion, occupying every news channel and thoroughly saturating my life. I'm a fairly outspoken republican (see the link in my reply to Howard) so I was delighted when Harry decided to abdicate his HRH to 'live a quiet life free from press intrusion'. Since he did that, the couple have released a book, a tell-all interview, a documentary and given numerous media interviews 'to break their silence'. I generally dislike hypocrites on principle and I find them particularly annoying because they occupy a privileged speaking platform in society (ostensibly against their will) and use that platform to speak about themselves.
2. Indeed you haven't, and perhaps this hyperbole on my part - but that is very much how it feels. We are supposed to ignore the fact they're separate individual millionaires with buckets of choice about where they go and what they do - and see their actions as a necessary part of fighting injustice. They are the oppressed and the Royal family are the oppressor..... given the behaviour of the Royal family in the last 600 years, and what they have sanctioned on behalf of the Government, plus Harry's showboating that he's killed 25 brown people - this is quite hard to swallow. If we're going to start assisting people the British monarchy has oppressed then we need not start with the Great Great Grandson of Queen Victoria. He (and she) are taking up all the oxygen in the room.
Barack Obama is a decent rebuttal - but Barack Obama was an elected President by popular vote. He had support of at over half the country. He may have been treated like shit by the other half - and there was some racist as fuck bullshit stunts pulled by the right ..... but he was constitutionally and fairly there. I think there may have been some privilege at play there to get him lined up for the job - the law degree required funding etc. I also think he was the best candidate in the 2008 election by an a absolute landslide and if he'd had more of a chance and less of a backlash, he would've moved the US further to the economic left than he was able. I'm sad he was stymied the way he was, the US squandered their chances.
I'm sorry, it turns out I wrote an essay. Damn. These things happen. Always nice to see you popping up. I've now got to go to work and speak to everyone about what I think about Harry and Meghan for most of the day. :o/
