>>149513917 (OP)People are going on about Commies, but this is striking me as a very American mythology.
The ideal of a founder who is remembered for rejecting the power that was foisted upon them. And who's name is invoked to call to mind morals of the same. Morals that go beyond merely "our dude was awesome and took care of us, as a King should," but universal morals of equality. Of deference to a people and not blood. Morales that, I will presume just as much here as in the history of the American example, would probably seem alien and inappropriate to that actual figure themselves. And, again I presume, just as much with this fictional Queen as the first American King that never was, the myth endures because despite everything else, that aspect was real. George Washington refused to be a King. Refused to be a divinely appointed leader.
Despite the insistence of his peers. If you go to the American capital, go to its center of power, there's a very real center to the city. Beneath a painting depicting Washington as a divine figure, a mural literally title his Apotheosis, is an empty tomb. Where Washington's first worshipers wanted to bury his corpse, at the zero point of the city's plan. Like some kind of fucking pharaoh. A God King. He said no.
People want their Gods and their Kings and damn themselves to them. Again and again. Even when those Kings, and Gods, tell them to fuck off.