Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

Truth is what it is. Leaders do not shy from the truth when their group strategy and competitive advantage is The Truth. Restoring western civ requires restoring the constitutional monarchies for the purpose of judge of last resort. The fact that your head is full of as much bullshit about monarchies as the left is full of bullshit about white people, is because you’re just as much a victim of bullshit as they are. 1) Hoppe is right on incentives of “Renters” in government. 2) Michels is right about the iron law of oligarchy and the consequences of democracy. 3) Schmidt is right about the need for the law to handle exceptions. 4) Legions (exp Bagehot) are right that monarchies are the most successful form of government in history, and democracies always fail from hyperconsumption and competition over access to power, the violates the natural law, which is that we may have no power over one another other than denial of parasitism. 4) I am right that (a) monarchy is necessary for the denial of power, (b) denial of influence, (b) limiting the fashions of the people – and far better record than any president. Monarchs and Prime ministers and allocation to parties, have always defeated presidents, speakers of the house, and the first past the post two-party system in every possible case. QUOTES Because a ceremony of men, kin, nation is far better than a ceremony of false gods, ideology, politicians – or consumption. The best Governments of the World have been composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights – the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government. The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president. I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution. What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That’s true whether it’s a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy. If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs. Edit