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Honestly, once Trump became the GOP nominee, I never doubted that the people would vote him in as President. The only doubt I had was in how rigged the system was against the people.
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I am not so quick to label all monarchies as bad. From a philosophical standpoint - I believe more in a sort of republic system designed to properly enforce anarchy more so than anything else, and the contradiction should reveal what I believe the long term prognosis of such a system to be. However, monarchies are evolutions of the tribal system of order, which humans tend to be comfortable in.
So long as the monarchy keeps from molesting the people, most have little issue with a well run monarchy. Many monarchies in the past have been extremely popular among the people, as well - forming a central pillar of their cultural identity.
Consider the outcome of World War 1. You had the Bolshevik revolution - Bloody October and the purge of the Romanov line (who were friendly toward the U.S., I might add). You had the purge of several Yugoslavian noble families. There was the elimination of Germany's lines of nobility.
Then there was World War 2 - the consequence of which was the tying of all world currencies to the dollar, which had been recently detached from the value of Gold.
Monarchies enforced their territory and took personal ownership of a nation in a way a republic never will. They are raised to understand investment and assets - in the difference between paper and reality. They would not have stood as easily for the chopping up and selling of their countries to international interests.
Milosovic did as much in the late 80s/early 90s and MI6 used Al Qaeda to rile up Bosnia/Kosovo in a smear campaign to support military offensives. A lot of old noble families come from Yugoslavia - Montenegro, in particular (Princess Ksenija's lineage, who were very close to French nobility and the Romanovs).
I do not look to Monarchies as a 'progressive' style of government - but responsible royal families ran their countries well and saw to it that their people and nations were secure because the state of the nation was a direct representation of their status as the alpha family in their region.
If given the option between a monarchy and a hastily prepared republic of tribes… I choose the monarchy as the tribes can and will be leveraged against each other by external forces.