Pony (pony)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jul-14 22:25:52 UTC
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@zeldatra @cinnamonswirl That's why the current bit in my writing has become difficult to justify. Right now, I'm actually going with an Equestrian history that involves a political movement in recent centuries that pushes for the decline of the monarch/diarch (keeping the alicorns as figureheads only) in favor of a system closer to democracy or that of a republic. In more recent decades, in its effort to garner support and stir up the masses, influential figures supporting the movement's cause claim that ponies have been victimized by the current system, propagating that the government imposes its beliefs and laws, biased against non-believers, on citizens through the "combination of church and state." Much like feminism, this kind of movement could lead the nobles or existing lower authorities to scapegoat against already stigmatized, mutually-hated minorities, and it could explain the rise of victimology (things I need for my writing).
