You have a better chance of getting a good monarch by a hereditary lineage that is accountable to an aristocracy with permanent responsibility for the nation state, than a good politician who was able to get his name checked on a ballot because the voter saw a meme on Facebook. https://twitter.com/ZacMabry/status/1132736670779006976 …
So the same mix that led to WWI? Representative democracies make mistakes, but generally not on the scale of dictatorships, autocratic monarchies or even aristocratic constitutional monarchies
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Nobody was dragged kicking and screaming into World War I by autocrats or aristocrats. The English and Central European common folk wanted war and they got it. George V and Wilhem II were first cousins for God's sake.
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I don’t think that’s accurate. Commoners support wars because people can be jingoistic. But the cause of the war was pure Great Powers politics. The same thing that led the European countries to carving up the world into colonies and protectorates
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