uhh ya I'd rather not give the Catholic Church any political power but that's probably not a topic for this server

Lol

Yeah

Rome was strongest when the Senate familial clans (the Gens) were pure and intact

A heritidary nobility provides a genepool for good rulers

This was Plato's ideal as well

New rules of primogeniture could be established that factor in genetic pedgree as well as accomplishments in adult life, the Gens Imperator could be renewed every generation by the election of a new rule based on a series of standards to draw from a general aristocratic class

There's a big debate around the role of the Aristocracy and the role it plays in a monarchy. Not a lot of love for the merchant class

Circulation of genes is essential but it should be slow and we'll selected

Selection is key for sure

@Perihelion - CA Incorrect. Plato actually wanted philosopher kings to not get married or have children so that they wouldn't be influenced by any interests besides the good of the Polis. He also believed that the best leaders could come from any class and be picked based on merit

Childless rulers have not worked well in the last 60 years, I feel that a familial bond to the nation is a must, not necesarily a hereditary government office, but a prerequisite to holding office in an established state

The problem is that all the monarchs have a hatred for the ideology that unseated them: nationalism. The Hapsburgs are BIG EU supporters.

Hapsburgs support the EU because they believe they should be the head of the EU.

The prince married a half-black American divorcee because the Queen needed a colored member of the family to parade around multi-racial England.

Monarchy is fine, hereditary monarchy is big gay

Also rip France again

Is religion of peace confirmed yet

I think monarch should be selected through ritualized military tribal combat conducted in the Yukon wilderness

Obviously this is the only way to avoid fops

Monarchy sucks. Absolute power is dangerous, and there's no way for a monarchy to have the people behind it now that nobody believes in divine right

His moral character will be tried by his ability to recruit a team of the best and most competent men to risk their lives in the trial by combat

absolute power doesn't exist. Even the absolute monarch had his head chopped off by peasants. Its more honest than what we have now

Morality arises out of teamwork being stronger than solo strength

See peasents and head chopping

Revolutions almost never succeed, and when they do they're revolutions of the bourgeoisie not the peasantry

I would prefer a system that is not so unstable and inflexible as to make violent revolution the primary means of change

Once the aristocracy lost the ear of the monarch, it was only a matter of time before the monarchy lost his head.

Thats a funny thing to say as we watch the Trump presidency be strangled by the Deep State

The shift away from a feudal agricultural economy combined with the Enlightenment made the old order unsustainable.

I would prefer not to go into LARP territory regarding what it might take to salvage America, but I will say that there is a fundamental difference between having a revolution every few centuries as a last resort vs having it be the only means of achieving change. America went almost 200 years before the deep state was a thing

It's not LARPing so much as critique of democracy in the abstract. The upside of autocracy is the ability to affect change quickly. Democracy is meant to make change much harder. The Lows are higher but the highs are lower, as it were.

I don't support democracy per se. I want a constitutional republic with limited suffrage based on knowledge of history, civics, current events, etc. There would have to be guaranteed free speech online and a breakup of the Jewish oligopoly on media as well.

Check out @CR’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/CR/status/1072630863479869440?s=09

Any democratic form of government can only function properly in a homogeneous and patriotic country, I would add.

Ritualized complex combat maybe even in game form would be a good option for ruler selection

Rulers should command respect and loyalty of strong men

But lest we be ruled by Chads the combat should require analytical ability

You can do a lot worse than the quarterback president

But we could probably do better too with a better game

So Jiu Jitsu?