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People sometimes ask, "why would you want a monarch to rule over you, what if they turn out to be bad"? That is because a bad monarch's cruddy behaviors are difficult to hide, given the scope of his power and oversight, and bad monarchs usually don't last longer than 10 to -
People sometimes ask, "why would you want a monarch to rule over you, what if they turn out to be bad"? That is because a bad monarch's cruddy behaviors are difficult to hide, given the scope of his power and oversight, and bad monarchs usually don't last longer than 10 to -
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15 years. Sometimes they last no longer than 5. The really crappy emperors like Vasiliscos, Andronicos, and Alexios IV, especially, crashed and burned faster than the blink of an eye. Julian the Apostate was also killed by supernatural intervention.
15 years. Sometimes they last no longer than 5. The really crappy emperors like Vasiliscos, Andronicos, and Alexios IV, especially, crashed and burned faster than the blink of an eye. Julian the Apostate was also killed by supernatural intervention.
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A king beholden to God and Providence, is leagues better than the puppet of a swamp of faceless dictators, bankers, and oligarchs whose power-base is so stagnant and deeply embedded in the system, that their tyranny is next to impossible to overthrow.
A king beholden to God and Providence, is leagues better than the puppet of a swamp of faceless dictators, bankers, and oligarchs whose power-base is so stagnant and deeply embedded in the system, that their tyranny is next to impossible to overthrow.
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Even Ivan the Terrible, a brutal and paranoid Tsar, is 50,000 times better than a swamp of schemers and corrupters who seize the innocent and turn them into monsters like themselves. So yes, even the worst king is better than the best democracy.
Even Ivan the Terrible, a brutal and paranoid Tsar, is 50,000 times better than a swamp of schemers and corrupters who seize the innocent and turn them into monsters like themselves. So yes, even the worst king is better than the best democracy.
