[B-Chan]

Food for thought.

[marron]

Too bad most royals are slack-jawed inbred chimps I wouldn’t hire to run a convenience store.

[wastedyears]

Does he mean liberal in the sense of the Founding Fathers.

I use a lower case ‘l’ for a reason.

[Lancey Howard]

Not a bad rant, except that our government WOULD work if the political class took the Constitution seriously. Unfortunately, the Constitution was destroyed once the polticians realized that they could use it to extract money from some citizens and use that money to buy the votes of other citizens, and THAT scheme was fully enabled once people found that they were actually encouraged by the scumbag politicians to use the government to vote themselves other people’s money.

Ahh well - - it was all downhill from there, and the toilet ain’t done flushing yet.

[Neoncon]

Are kings ever wrong?

[FredZarguna]

Food for thought.

No. Not even chewing gum for casual consideration.

Monarchy is incompatible with liberty: only the sovereign has true liberty. That is why popular sovereignty is the only possible choice for a liberal in the classical tradition. Moral systems founded in altruism are fundamentally corrupt. The idea that we should give up our choices for the "greater good" to a self-appointed autocrat -- even a perfect one -- is just another name for slavery.

History provides numerous arguments against monarchy/autocracy/despotism. Failure to heed them gets lots of people killed. If you won't heed the lessons history teaches, take a page from current events. This is the only argument against monarchy (even a purely symbolic one) that a sensible person needs to see: