Link: https://swedenherald.com/article/trust-in-norways-royal-family-is-plummeting

Support for the monarchy in Norway has fallen by ten percentage points in just one month to a record low.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://swedenherald.com/article/trust-in-norways-royal-family-is-plummeting

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Norwegian here. I don't think it's "trust" in the literal sense, but more in line with "viewing them as a neutral yet benevolent institution with integrity".

The latter is more or less the image they've tried to portray for ages, and with reasonable success, since they don't really have much de facto power. However, the recent stupidity have caused many people to question what purpose they serve to begin with.

And just for the record: I don't really care that much about them, neither for nor against. Bigger portions of my taxes go to stupider things.

Royal families shouldn't exist

They can, but they shouldn't have power because of a stupid bloodline.

No, they shouldn't. No authoritarians and monarchs always want absolute power.

Well, they exist, what do you think should be done?

There are a few amazingly simple solutions to these problems. I think you're overthinking it

Like?

If you were going to build a fair society from scratch, do you think giving excessive privilege and power to members of a single family would be a reasonable option for the structure of your society?

Strip them of their titles, remove their access to power. Park then far from people to remove their celebrity. Give them nothing to stand out from others.

They are just people. Treat them like it.

How do you say Republic in norwegian?

Just as a note. The Swedish Herald is not as far as I can tell not registered in Swedish. They have not posted their organisation number on the homepage and they are not listed on Bolagsverket (it is the governmet agency where all corporations need to be registered.) They also only have listed 3 writers and one EIC. Their different personal about pages say a lot about them but they do not refer to them self as journalists. I have seen them linked to here before, most of their articles seem to be direct translations of news published by real Swedish news outlets. Such as TT, SVT, SYDSVENSKAN, etc, but they don't credit them. Take what you read on this page with that in mind.

Republikk incoming

Of course, and I'm all with you here. They can still fantasize about being "royals" if they want, but no cake because of it.