Unelected Monarchs are fair game. They are the very definition of despotism.
But anyway, he’s innocent. Killing two people with a 32 acp is impossible, ive read on gun threads that anything smaller than a 9 is essentially useless. So something else must have happened.
I dislike all forms of Totalitarianism. Monarchy included.
And I have always had great sympathy for the Serbs. They have sure been poorly treated. I am not talking about having sympathy for the Serbian Leadership, but the Serbian People.
They were at one time called the Keepers of the Gate. The gate between the Muslim World and the Christian World. The brutality of the Balkans seems to make all crazy.
Such absolutism!
I’m not saying the Austro-Hungarian emperor met all these standards, but hypothetically:
What if the unelected monarchs are beloved by a majority of the people they represent? What if they rule justly, and enable economic freedom and motility? Is a beloved monarch better than a despised elected government? We are a democracy; is our government beloved? Just? Free?
A people is entitled to choose their own leaders. If a people are prosperous, free and happy under an effective and just ruler, are they wrong to retain such a ruler?
Elections aren’t democracy. Elections are merely the means by which successors are chosen. The laws of a nation make for a democracy when the people retain power over their own lives and decisions. An elected ruler with no respect for law is far worse than a monarch with great respect for the laws he inherited. What major decision, in the last 100 years, has ever been made in America with the consent of the governed? The legalization of abortion? The destruction of the American family? The imposition of the welfare state? The prohibition of public Christianity? The explosion of the public debt?