You are a voice of reason. I would go further and say that if, quite simply, everybody who holds any political office today (or at any other time) is told that he holds that office as his property as long as he wants it, and can bequeath it to his child -- our lives as private citizens will improve dramatically, this country will prosper in peace, the size fo government will be reduced over time drastically, and generally much if not all of the conservative agenda will be implemented in due course. That is because property is preserved and increased when it has an owner, and in a democracy the national infrastructure has no owner, only renters.
I don't think any American Monarchist (I am one) considers monarchy a possibility for America presently. I think that an aristocratic system with a monarch balancing and limiting the excesses of the nobility is a natural development of any free society; I think that a healthy society does have a dominant religion and merely tolerates other religions. I also think that Protestantism is the dominant American religion at least for the time being.
The idea that one can write a constitution and then somehow implement it, like a computer program, is profoundly un-monarchic, and outright silly. A monarchy is an organic product, -- it is, in fact a form of a family. It develops over time; it may even have a consitution at some point of maturity; but to write a monarchic constitutions makes about as much sense as writing a future biography of a baby.
I don't think any American Monarchist (I am one) considers monarchy a possibility for America presently. I think that an aristocratic system with a monarch balancing and limiting the excesses of the nobility is a natural development of any free society; I think that a healthy society does have a dominant religion and merely tolerates other religions. I also think that Protestantism is the dominant American religion at least for the time being.
Does "not a possibility for America presently" mean that Catholics should be trying improve the possibility for it in America, at least in the future?
I don't think any American Monarchist (I am one) considers monarchy a possibility for America presently.
What an interesting statement! Presently? When then? What circumstances would bring your fantasy of a Monarchy to fruition?
Thanks for the unexpected compliment.
I would go further and say that if, quite simply, everybody who holds any political office today (or at any other time) is told that he holds that office as his property as long as he wants it, and can bequeath it to his child -- our lives as private citizens will improve dramatically, this country will prosper in peace, the size fo government will be reduced over time drastically, and generally much if not all of the conservative agenda will be implemented in due course. That is because property is preserved and increased when it has an owner, and in a democracy the national infrastructure has no owner, only renters.
I think a similar point was made in a book entitled Democracy: The God that Failed. The point being that a permanent governing class has an incentive to preserve the country and hand it over to the next generation. Elected representatives/presidents etc. have only the incentive of short term political advantage with no concern for future generations at all.