Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

An Ideology: Any reasonably coherent set of social, cultural, moral and political ideas that can be used to obtain and hold political power on the behalf of a part of a population that perceives it has similar interests. Monarchy needs a sufficient ideological base. The people have abandoned the church. The church has abandoned christendom. Economics has replaced cultural nationalism, and empirical tools have replaced the moral sentiments. For monarchy to prevail in the post-mystical age, we must remake it’s foundations so that they rely upon economic and cultural superiorities, not desire to return to the past.

Monarchs are superior to elected ministers because they have a longer time preference, and with a longer time preference they can more wisely veto those changes which will, in the long term, harm the society – because they are not subject to the fashions of the people.

There are three basic western philosophical traditions: 1) Aristocratic and Conservative with the longest time preference. 2) Middle Class and Classical Liberal with medium time preference 3) Proletarian and socialist with short time preference. These three philosophies loosely correspond to social class sentiments and perceptions of social order. THey also loosely correspond to the Monarchy, the Senate, and House of Commons. The insight of the british model was to give each social class it’s house, and to force the houses to collaborate in order to enact laws.

This model was sufficient until the american and french revolutions attempted to break the class model and transfer full power to either the middle or lower classes. And was further exacerbated by the Russian and chinese revolutions which (regrettably) succeeded in transferring political power to the proletariat. After the world wars, Europe was broken and rejected the aristocratic model entirely. (Wrongly. Germany was right. German social order is the most economically productive yet discovered because it mobilizes the working class to produce quality exports.) Instead, governments sought solace in socialist doctrine and universal enfranchisement, while authoritarian and military control was absorbed by the Americans along with the British navy and port system. Americans used this period of economic prosperity to assert their inherited global military power to undermine communism – successfully, but is not largely bankrupt and unable to fund it’s existing military structure as well as it’s redistributionist benefit system. Instead, Americans export debt instead of taxing other countries, and they use that debt to finance the cost of running the world trade system. Unfortunately, in the process of running the empire, Americans have now become a fractured society, with race, culture and class divisions, as well as somewhere between four and ten different ‘nations’ within the USA, operating under the administration of an international imperial government. The US economy is now so dependent upon the value of the dollar, and the use of military force to determine the means by which trade is administered, that the citizenry will suffer if these obligations are reduced.

This series of events shows the danger of empire building, whether it is done on purpose as in the case of Britain defending herself from spain and france, or by accident, in the case of the USA, trying to maintain stability during and after the war period.

The optimum government must reflect the class structure of society in one way or another, so that the classes that do exist can use the government to cooperate rather than regress into class warfare.

A constitution enumerating the specific powers of the government. A hereditary monarch with veto power. A senate of commerce and banking whose members must meet rigid criteria, and who are chosen by lottery. A house of redistribution that is democratically elected. An independent judiciary operating on the common law. And most importantly, 1) issuing loans not laws – loans are calculable and forecastable. 2) the senate borrowing money from the house and repaying interest for use in redistribution to the house, 3) the privatization of all offices of government, so that a bureaucracy cannot form and seize power. 4) electronic presentation of all house legislation, and direct democratic voting on individual bills. 5) Immigration requires cultural assimilation and language adoption, as well as purchased right of entry, and accountable sponsorship of the individual. 6) The return of the majority of political power to the states, and the limitation of the federal government to money, insurance, and defense. 7) the right of nullification and secession is inviolate.

Money, Insurance, War are global but all trade and culture is local. — And that’s how people want it. Classes exist and in any society will either cooperate and prosper, or in conflict, they will undermine that society and it’s government.