oh no absolutely no. if there is one thing i will not do it's police how people from countries without something as insane as a nobility arrange the words in conjunctions that include "sir" and "lord" and even "keir"
if there is one traditional aspect of being American I live by, it’s absolutely refusing to acknowledge or play along with British royalty and nobility bullshit
But why is it only the President who gets that?
I mean, why shouldn’t Director of Waste Disposal of The State of Wisconsin, (or whatever the official title is) not get the badge for life?
Unfortunately the US does this for a lot of titles (you'll see lots of "Ambassador Haley", "Governor Christie", etc, but they are all /former/ officeholders. But stylebooks should reject it)
One of the things America was absolutely right about is that does not need, and should outright reject state-awarded titles of nobility. And so we should reject these too. If you are in the hot-seat in the oval office, congratulations Mr President. The day you leave, it should be just goodbye, Mr.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine, and because I feel like disrespecting our leaders is the one true American birthright, I move that the title for former office holders henceforth be "that fuckin guy."
Only because your four-star generals were getting bullied by european five-star generals in ww1, despite both being the highest rank available.
I like the idea of nobody outranking your favourite president, but I'm sure he'd have hated it.
Tocqueville said that lawyers were the closest thing America had to an aristocracy, and we could do without at least six of the lawyers who have taken that to heart.
