In the case of the United States, we are supposed to have Constitutional Republican Governments, certainly not "Democracy." A Monarch with a sense of honor would be infinitely preferable to a Government by majority rule, amid a populace without real understanding of the political institutions, which they are staffing by their votes. What made Republican Government work reasonably well in America prior to the demagogues of the Twentieth Century, was a sense of individual responsiblility among a people steeped in their own heritage--just read the speeches of the politicians in the era before the Civil War, and you will see what I mean. There are few in the Political Science departments of major American Universities today, who could have held their own in a debate with the typical farmer in 1840.
Popular procedures worked in America, for the same reasons actual Democracy worked in Switzerland. But those are very specialized examples. In many places, the exact opposite is the case. (For example, in my opinion, Clinton's imposition of a Marxist regime in Haiti, where he forced out an honorable man--a West Point graduate, with our values--to install the candidate of the Haitian mob; was a crime against the civilized minority in Haiti which was absolutely unconsionable.)
I do not, frankly, believe that we will be able to maintain the American Republic too much longer, unless we stop the present trend in immigration, and break out of the sort of mind stupefication being foisted upon us by the media and academia in our midst. I believe that we can break out of our stupor; that we can win, and by winning preserve the American Republic; but you will never find me attacking other Nations, who affirm their traditional Monarchies for the ends suggested in the lead essay.
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