I dunno, I also am a country boy but I have seen way too much stuff in my lifetime to not think that a handful of people control everything. Here, there and everywhere ..

As far as a Pres ... give me Thomas Jefferson please .. but that ain't gonna happen .. You have to be selected to run for office by the machine .. and that means as Bobster says "The boss hogs" and that is true everywhere in every country anymore.

Now as for the queen, who does she hurt? I know nothing about the royal family but it sure seems to me her foundations are all about helping people and kids and the sick and the elderly. It is an embracing of historical roots of the people to keep her as a figure head. One needs to know where they came from (all good all bad aside). What does it hurt?