I almost wouldn't care if Russia took over the USA at this point
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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.
Why are you telling us to kill voters instead of the monarch-equivalent, the president.
What happens to all the muh real king muh usurper people then. Even if they didn't vote it's not like they just disappear.
You really can't, and it's not that easy. You're guaranteeing a horrific Civil War every few years were swaths of your population are killed unseating yet another ignorant monarch, who will continue to not properly protect the country. Your solution to defeat a tyrant... is with more tyrants. This is what has always happened as an established monarchy breaks down. Warring factions start vying for power to seize control, and everyone is left worse off from the instability.
You want stability, so your solution to poor leadership is violent instability by the mob. It doesn't work.
No, that's not any better, it might even be worse as the aristocracy tends to be even worse than the monarch. I mean having Republican voting systems rather than Direct Democracy / "Representative" voting systems.
Ha ha ha. You actually think we're not an oligarchy right now!