“Totalitarianism” is the term applied to an ideological government divorced from national goals, such as the USSR. Monarchy has nothing to do with dictatorships nor totalitarianism. It has everything to do with legitimacy.
Monarchy is a national government with one man given the charge of his country inmolested by political concerns. I am a monarchist and every right-thinking American should be, too. This is the most natural, most able to do long term strategic thinking form of government. Individual monarchs can fail; Louis XVI surely failed. But what replaces monarchies is typically worse, because what replaces a monarchy is invariably a demagogue state run by unelected and often foreign elite.
America is a special case, as it was a colony mismanaged by George III. America is still to find its road to functional monarchy; it will probably be a long one. In fact, we haven’t build true feudalism yet: we still don’t have a free domestic market for contractual civic service, and in fact our system of local government is crumbling.
You said: “I am a monarchist”
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I am not surprised, but will never understand that perspective. My very nature is against it. It is against every element of my being.
Nothing connected with my faith or education allows me to accept that position as being rational or fair.
As a young man I flirted with libertarianism until I saw where that lead. For a few years I read a magazine named “Chronicles” until I finally saw what they really advocated. I admired the grasp of history that some of the Paleo Conservatives (their own term) had. Until I saw where it lead. Since then I have been totally repulsed by that group.
You referenced Wiki? I am not fond of it because of it’s own bias. But here is what Wiki says about Totalitarianism:
“Totalitarianism is an extreme version of authoritarianism (my insert- Dictator/Monarchy). Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control.”