That is the problem with all forms of government as our current situation has demonstrated. Every leader save Trump since 1990 has been malevolent and I can name countless more tyrant Presidents.
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history." - President John Adams
Monarchies get a bad rap in the USA but Jesus Christ, historically democracies have been awful. The USA is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic anyway, not a democracy. As a Brit Monarchist, I wish we’d just return to absolutism. I’m tired of corrupt politicians, as everyone is across the world.
Haha, thanks pede, you too. In terms of ideology, divine right of Kings etc, I’m absolutely a Jacobite. Although I do agree to an extent that the ‘Glorious Revolution’ was necessary. American Monarchism has always intrigued me, what kind of system would you like to see, under King Donald I of course 😉.
Non centralized absolutism. While I can appreciate the ideas behind the Magna-Carta it had the unfortunate effect of undermining monarchism by changing the legitimacy of government away from Divine Right. Divine Right is inseparable from Monarchy because it explains why the hierarchy exists in the first place. A monarchist site that I frequent explained is thusly:
When it is said that the kings have descended from the divine, it means that they are the continuation of the best in our people, which is closest to the divine because such people have the best understanding of reality, the highest moral standards, and will advance civilization by not merely reacting to conditions but by imposing a creative focus to their leadership by which they not only do what is practical, but improve the quality of what exists so that it rises above what we previously thought was possible.
To hominids gathering beetles, roots and bush meat it must have been inconceivable that something like imperial Rome or pre-democracy Athens might exist. In the same way, to modern people it seems impossible that life can be anything more than gathering jobs, consumer products and triplicate forms. But it is possible to rise above and then keep on rising.
For that reason, traditional societies saw their aristocrats as a gift from God. These were people blessed with not just intellectual power, but moral goodness, and within that, the aesthetic preference for beauty, truth, sanity and excellence. These people alone can make a great society.
At the same time, power needs to be kept local. Your town's local lord knows what is best for the town than the King located on the other side of the continent even though the King knows what is best for the nation as a whole.
Wouldn’t you say it’s become one in all but name only? Constitutional safeguards such as state legislators sending electors seem to have been abandoned in favour of just going for whoever (supposedly) wins the popular vote in the state, regardless of the potential damage to the constitution. You are an American though so you’d know more than me on your own system lol
It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history."
Correct, and this was Milton Friedman's point about communism. People act as if our society is exclusively greedy. You're not killing or starving millions of your own people without some greed.
That is the problem with all forms of government as our current situation has demonstrated. Every leader save Trump since 1990 has been malevolent and I can name countless more tyrant Presidents.
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to Say that Democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history." - President John Adams
Monarchies get a bad rap in the USA but Jesus Christ, historically democracies have been awful. The USA is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic anyway, not a democracy. As a Brit Monarchist, I wish we’d just return to absolutism. I’m tired of corrupt politicians, as everyone is across the world.
Absolutely based! Are you a Jacobite?
Haha, thanks pede, you too. In terms of ideology, divine right of Kings etc, I’m absolutely a Jacobite. Although I do agree to an extent that the ‘Glorious Revolution’ was necessary. American Monarchism has always intrigued me, what kind of system would you like to see, under King Donald I of course 😉.
Non centralized absolutism. While I can appreciate the ideas behind the Magna-Carta it had the unfortunate effect of undermining monarchism by changing the legitimacy of government away from Divine Right. Divine Right is inseparable from Monarchy because it explains why the hierarchy exists in the first place. A monarchist site that I frequent explained is thusly:
At the same time, power needs to be kept local. Your town's local lord knows what is best for the town than the King located on the other side of the continent even though the King knows what is best for the nation as a whole.
The US isnt a democracy
Wouldn’t you say it’s become one in all but name only? Constitutional safeguards such as state legislators sending electors seem to have been abandoned in favour of just going for whoever (supposedly) wins the popular vote in the state, regardless of the potential damage to the constitution. You are an American though so you’d know more than me on your own system lol
Yes the entire system has become corrupted. The founding fathers foresaw this and told us what to do.
Correct, and this was Milton Friedman's point about communism. People act as if our society is exclusively greedy. You're not killing or starving millions of your own people without some greed.