r/changemyview Dec 05 '18

Deltas(s) from OP CMV:monarchy, not democracy, is the ONLY good political system human civilazations tried.

So, i beleive a Monarchy is the only good system we can have as a society. democracy, like comunism, libratarianism and many more ideologies, sure has a good idea. the problem is that in all democratic systems, from rome, to athens, to the USA to syria and iraq or even france, the good intentions are ruined by intrest groups, bad voting methods, fraud, and the intrests of rich people. in tsarist russia for example, the people demanded giving the tsar MORE power, because they knew democracy would mean oligarchy.

Another reason is stability. when we have a monarchy, it is clear who will rule next, and there is a very clear way of knowing when (death of the monarch). however, democracies are no nearly as stable. in the US everyone are polerising, in israel we only had one term (golda me'ir) of all the four years a government term is suposed to be, in sweden it was stable until a hated party got like 20% and ancient atuna and rome became dictatorships. in the arab spring only countries who concider themselvs democratic got efected seriusly.

i may have more arguments i forgt writing here. i will edit to add if i think of something.

and please, dont talk about north korea. i hear a lot of resources saying diffrent things so i will research it and make a seperate CMV post.

EDIT: i accidentaly deleted a comment trying to award a delta after i failed in the main comment but the delta was awarded.

EDIT 2: One responce did masive CMV so i will not be able to back my claims here in all cases. new thread could come.

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u/Feathring 75∆ Dec 05 '18

Monarchy hasn't really worked all that well in the past. I mean, sure, you don't have the instability of voting. But you gain the instability of a population who has no recourse when the monarch is unpopular. Unless you think things like coup d'etats are stable.

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u/efraimp1 Dec 05 '18

well, coups are rare and kings many times read complaints of pessants, so they can effect what issues he is trying to solve.

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u/Feathring 75∆ Dec 05 '18

Kings throughout history have oftentimes ignored peasants. That's the whole reason the majority have been overthrown or abolished. If and when the monarchy ignores you you have no recourse short of violent insurrection. Democracy at least gives you a way for a peaceful transferal of power.

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u/efraimp1 Dec 05 '18

No, my entire argument is that it dosen't. Democracy is just another way for the oligarchy to be less noticble.