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To: Alter Kaker
The problem for the monarchists - and this is a problem for monarchies everywhere - is that everybody likes the of having a king so long as they're the king

No, that is not the case at all. I am as commoner as anyone can get, -- I barely know my grandparents, -- but I am a monarchist, and yes, I will prefer most any king to most any democratic 4-year-lease government any time.

87 posted on 01/12/2015 7:45:17 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex
but I am a monarchist, and yes, I will prefer most any king to most any democratic 4-year-lease government any time.

Campaign finance law, gerrymandering, and the inertia of political machines pretty much rigs things in favor of incumbents, so many of our Senators and Congressmen have "served" (or I should say, been served by us) longer than many monarchs and dictators have been in office. Add to that the fact that we've been stuck with a Kennedy in office or the past century and will probably be stuck with a Bush in high office of the next, what we have is much closer to a hereditary monarchy than you might think.

90 posted on 01/12/2015 7:47:30 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: annalex

So are you a Legitimist, an Orleanist or a Bonapartist?


104 posted on 01/13/2015 2:34:35 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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