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Hell has frozen over: The Guardian publishes an article suggesting that the UK return to an absolute monarchy (archive.ph)
posted 3 years ago by Darkchaos 3 years ago by Darkchaos +35 / -0
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– Darkchaos [S] 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

I found it really surprising that The Guardian out of all publications published this article. They're normally extremely liberal and woke when it comes to political issues.

Honestly, I can actually agree with this take. Liberal democracies have descended into mob rule over insignificant issues while the leaders are invertebrates that are incapable of finding their own ass with both hands and all the while, a class of rich oligarchs are getting richer and directing society according to their vision.

What the West needs is strong and decisive leaders that can actually work on unfucking their own countries without having to worry about political action committees, lobbying, corrupt officials and all that crap. Even people like Ron DeSantis aren't going to be able to do what needs to be done under a democratic framework, so it would only make sense to return to monarchy or other more autocratic forms of government.

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– onetruephilosoraptor 35 points 3 years ago +35 / -0

Charles is the current King. He is a climate change cultist and part of the WEF.

You cannot make a positive case for monarchy when your damn monarch will be part of the oligarchy who destroyed your country when it was a liberal democracy.

Monarchy is good only in theory.

It would be good if your monarch was a wise benevolent ruler but that is not going to be the case.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Monarchy is not the solution to our current problems.

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– BandageBandolier 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

That Charles just got in is almost certainly the only reason the guardian would suggest it. No principles other than grabbing power by any means.

Future ramifications be damned, they probably reckon they'll just change the rules again if they don't like the next heir.

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– Darkchaos [S] 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

While that's true, why not find a new king then? Someone who will actually be a wise benevolent ruler? These people exist and they can help save their own countries if placed in the right positions.

If we can't even do that, then the WEF might as well have won and there's nothing we can do about it except pray that papa Putin will launch the nukes and destroy the current world order.

Also, I'd disagree that absolute powers corrupts absolutely. I would instead argue that power doesn't corrupt, instead it reveals. It reveals what kind of person someone really is.

Society has both plenty of wannabe tyrants who lack the power to act on their dark impulses, and good people who could lead us to a better future but they lack the power as well. Give someone power, and you'll find out which group they're in.

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– onetruephilosoraptor 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

How are you going to appoint a new king instead of Charles in the U.K?

You seem to be wrapped up in the notion that single individuals can fix all of our problems. That is a very simplistic way of looking at a multi-faceted problem where all of our major institutions have become rotten.

There are very clear flaws to our current status quo in the west but replacing it with monarchy is not the easy answer you believe it to be.

How are you going to appoint the benevolent wise man as your king?

Through voting?

What happens when the easily manipulated general populace appoints someone like Brandon to be king?

Think of what can go wrong not just what can go right.

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– Darkchaos [S] 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Under an absolutist monarchy, kings rely on a certain amount of popular support to stay in power. If they fall below that level of support, they will be overthrown. The people will revolt or they'll be assassinated.

Trying to reform the system or switch from democracy to another system through peaceful means is not going to work. Like you mentioned, the institutions are completely rotten and there's a more insidious problem that the West is dealing with.

It's the importation of aliens and foreigners that has been ongoing for quite some time now.

"It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition. " - Aristotle

So it is, and reform becomes ever more unlikely as demographics change, for demographics are destiny. The foreigners and illegal aliens will receive handouts from the corrupt government and in turn, they will give their loyalty. For a time, until they achieve majority and most likely attempt to seize power themselves.

At this point, the only solution that could work in the West is for a revolution or coup to happen and a new regime headed by a strong leader to restore their country to its former greatness and purge the WEF-backed anti-human elements. Whether this is a monarchy or a dictatorship is immaterial, so long as someone is doing what needs to be done.

I'll admit, it's possible that the populace might actually make things worse and the wrong man could get in charge, but doing nothing will only result in the slow destruction of Western countries.

Thankfully, people do seem to be waking up on a large scale. Countries that haven't been completely subverted yet seem to be trying to resist. The Right has had victories in Italy and Sweden, two highly woke countries.

But the same approach is not going to work in countries like the UK or US, which are two party states where your choices are between a corrupt ineffectual party and one that is actively trying to accelerate your destruction.

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– deleted 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0
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– BetterNameUnfound 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Got any more cool monarchist quotes?

I'm serious--I need them for a little project of mine, and I don't trust any search engine to give me good stuff here.

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– Darkchaos [S] 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Sadly I can't really think of much off the top of my head. You're welcome to have a debate and maybe I'll remember something or come up with something quote-worthy though?

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– APDSmith 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Royals like Charles III make a very persuasive argument for the UK's constitutional monarchy that restricts their role to the one that everybody's happy with.

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– OldBullLee 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Suppose he was assassinated? Who's next in line of succession?

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– deleted 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0
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– Lurker404 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

They're normally extremely liberal and woke when it comes to political issues.

That's because they're in a position of power and they can influence monarchs to do their bidding. The monarchs they have in mind are THEIR monarchs.

The left is neither liberal nor democratic. They would love nothing more than an absolute dictatorship, as long as it's THEIR dictator.

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– Darkchaos [S] 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

While you're correct, the current democratic system favors the left, because it maintains a deadlock where nothing gets done and people keep infighting while the WEF and other unelected oligarchs run things behind the scenes.

For the same reason we can't expect to vote our way out of this problem, at least in the Anglosphere. The system has been captured too heavily by the oligarchs, making real change impossible.

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– ArchRespawnsAgain 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Liberal democracies have descended into mob rule over insignificant issues

What do you mean by this? Liberal democracies are oligarchies.

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– Darkchaos [S] 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Western liberal democracies are driven by both oligarchies and mob rule simultaneously.

Western institutions (the executive, judicial, mass media and academia) have all been subverted by the wokist ideology. It's gotten to the point where a single angry tranny can utterly ruin you and get you attacked by a personal army. Corporations and governments alike will kowtow to these people and bend to their every whim.

Yes, there are plenty of rich oligarchs and they have heavy influence on policy, but they are now being controlled by the monster that they seem to have created.

Nevertheless, things still work out in their favor because so long as they pay lip service to the new state religion, they can continue operating more or less with impunity. Amazon is pushing wokeness in one of the most expensive propaganda pieces ever, but people aren't interested that Bezos is literally forcing workers to piss in bottles because bathroom breaks lower productivity.

It's bad enough to have a group of rich, corrupt oligarchs that are looting your country, but now some of them have been infected by the woke social contagion which gives them a cause to fight for. A faith with unbelivers that need smiting and values to uphold.

In a way, the West today is a mix between an oligarchy and a theocracy (with the cult of social justice heading it)

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– ArchRespawnsAgain 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Yes, there are plenty of rich oligarchs and they have heavy influence on policy, but they are now being controlled by the monster that they seem to have created.

Nah. There's no reason they couldn't give trannies the same treatment that they alt-right got post Charlottesville. They are the same side. That's why they won't. It's why, for example, Chris Wray ignored Antifa, calling it "just and idea" and instead kept the FBI focused on muh white supremacy (totally not an idea, right?). If the radlibs/woke/whatever you want to call them were actually competing with America's ruling class, you'd see that competition playing out. You don't because they aren't.

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– Darkchaos [S] 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Yes and no. The wokists want a democratic society that technically allows you to make choices, but they want to make sure that you make the right choices.

A wokist outwardly supporting monarchy over democracy is a full on mask off moment.

It's not about centralizing power, it's about making sure that all the instutions are under their control and people obey them.

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