The unruly, convention-breaking 2016 US presidential election – all 546 days of it – between two highly unpopular candidates selected as a result of people voting has led some to call for the US to become a hereditary monarchy. WfaAR comments: one swallow doesn’t make a summer. Monarchies have had plenty of problems of their own in the last century, including poor candidates for an inherited job. If you have a commitment to democracy, then education about how it works; and individual responsibility and voting should be a priority. However, this article by Nikolai Tolstoy of the International Monarchist League in The New York Times is thought-provoking for anyone serious about the Australian Republic. Click on link below.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
