I almost wouldn't care if Russia took over the USA at this point
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*"It is under monarchy that intelligence stands its best chance against its ever present and irreconcilable foe, stupidity." -Arthur Schopenhauer
You want a system that has been proven repeatedly to not work. Democracy is the victory of the stupid over the reasonable.
Yes, that's what I think of when I think of the Hapsburg Dynasty: unflinching competence. /s
Stop it.
Monarchism, hereditary rule, and aristocracy do not prevent stupidity. They don't even really prevent mob rule.
That's right. They don't.
But democracy guarantees it.
So does monarchism, aristocracy, and hereditary rule.
There is a reason the children of very wealthy people blow it all: their lack of strife generates the stupidity that their successful parents rebuffed. The aristocracy is one of the most stupid institutions you could have politically. That's why the elites become out of touch in the first place.
Monarchism doesn't help.
Voting, more than 'Democracy', has a chance of working when managed properly.
You can kill a crummy unaccountable monarch.
Dealing with crummy unaccountable voters always involves massacres.
You mean when it's an oligarchy.
The second we started expanding the franchise, we ceased being an oligarchy, and we were damned from that point on.
When Schopenhauer wrote that, the only modern "dictator" had been Napoleon, and he fashioned himself a monarch.
If Schopenhauer been born a century later he would have used a different word.
The point is that democracy is a distributed system in which it is absolutely impossible to liberate the system from stupidity. With a single leader, there is the possibility that they aren't stupid (and if they are, it's a simple enough matter to get rid of them). You can't get rid of an entire people, although when government is dysfunctional enough for long enough, the people will try to anyway in an orgy of blood. Without fail.
Because history has a bias towards the noteworthy bad.