OK, TELL ME WHERE HE'S WRONG: "I always had some monarchist sympathies, but I went full turncoat when I saw how moronically people were treating politics after 2016 and realized that our current system was breeding a bunch of nutjobs."https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/oct/01/the-rise-of-monarchism …
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Except in the process of giving up voting, you would increase the percent of your life handed over to government. One less decision you get to make that someone else does in your stead. The same number of decisions are going to get made, you just won't be involved.
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if we could codify a max tax rate of 10%, but lose voting, how does that increase the percent of life handed to the government?
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I'll freely admit my desire for a limited monarchy is mostly based on belief in superior functionality. Watching Presidents and Congresscritters suck up to Big Tech/Pharma/Ag every damn day to maintain power isn't my vision of effective, efficient government.
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I've read a history book. The myth of "superior functionality" is driven by the hallucinatory desire to believe that people in the past were better than we are today. Not so. As people, they were identical. Magically better people don't appear just because you imagine them.
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