[sinkspur]

The kings of old may have had many faults, but at least they never would have allowed their societies to be gradually taken over by Muslim and other immigrants from the Third World,

Yep. Can't allow the darkies to pollute the lily-white world of the Euro-Americans.

I suspect an American monarch would still be mandating colored drinking fountains.

I don't trust unencumbered authority, especially when those who possess it claim that they are "enlightened by God."

[royalcello]

Would you like to live in an Islamic theocracy? That's where Europe's headed, thanks to open immigration.

Once again, the authority of traditional monarchs was not "unencumbered," especially when compared to that of 20th-century dictators and even modern democratic states, which in some ways exert more control over the lives of their citizens than medieval kings ever would have desired.

[Clemenza]

OK, then home come the Portuguese, Spanish, and French, both under monarchy and Republican rule, make "subjects/citizens" out of those who they conquered? As a matter of fact, the clergy encouraged intermarriage with those "third world" Indians and Asians that you so despise royalcello.

Learn your history. The colonial governments of Spain, Portugal and France actually granted legal rights to those they conquered, encouraged assimilation and had no problem with intermarriage. It was the English (and their descendants) who pushed anti-miscegenation laws in the New World, whether in America, Asia, or Africa.

[pascendi]

I don't trust unencumbered authority, especially when those who possess it claim that they are "enlightened by God."

Quit bashing the pope.