Abdication

I was working on a post about the last book I read, but recent events made me publish this first, that we need to discuss with some perspective.

So... our king.
This man that we the youth remember mostly for his superboring new year speeches, his lung surgery for something that was "not cancer", his famous "why don´t you shut up" to Hugo Chaves, his safari to Botswana defraid with our money to hunt some elephants and get his hip broken. We also know his family quite well: his son, the prince, who was finally weaned when he married the news anchor; his eldest daughter, who got married to a count who loved spirits (and eventually got divorced); his second daughter, who got married to a former Spanish handballer and gave the royal family an even worse name "not knowing what she was signing". His wife, always correct and composed while he is said to be fucking around and having more bastards than Robert Baratheon. This is what we have seen.
For older people though, this is the man who took Spain out of Franco´s régimen, who released a bunch of political prisoners, who got a coup d´état aborted in 1981 (known as 23F), who defended the Spanish constitution.

I think he deserves respect for all he did in the past, and I also think he deserves negative respect for all he´s been doing in the last few years.
And I think we got tired of a monarchy, especially when the royal family is involved in scandal and financial fraud. But even if it was not, the idea of a political system where the designation of the ultimate authority is based on a birth right sounds absurd to me, no matter how good or bad this authority might turn out to be. And we got mad at these people who not only waste our money for hunting elephants, but also defraud and are not punished (yet; we´ll see).

So... if the other option is a democratic republic... let´s give it a try! Let´s call for referendum to see what the people want. And then, at least, whatever the result, we will have the satisfaction to be given the oportunity to opine.

And maybe Felipe will be elected as the president of the III Spanish republic...

PD- I wouldn´t really define myself as a republican. I just think monarchy sucks.