Most Americans are not sufficiently educated to understand how the government works. That is the problem that must be addressed.Democracy is a terrible idea.
Allow me to illustrate.
Say you are traveling for the holidays, and you get on a plane to fly across the country at 35,000 feet.
Things are going well on democracy airlines, but an hour into the flight there’s a problem, and so you hear an announcement on the PA “ladies and gentlemen this is your constitutional president speaking, we have lost control of our engines and the flight attendants will be bringing you ballots to vote on the best solution”
Obviously this is insane, most people on the plane have no idea how to manage anything as complex as a commercial airliner.
So your safety when on the plane is basically an absolute dictatorship of the Captain. The captain is an educated professional who is granted full power over your life and death by a legitimate authority.
Likewise. For the complex business of running state affairs, the legitimate Authority (God through the Church) should be sanctioning one professional King to govern society. Most voters have no appreciation for complex issues and are too short-sighted to their own wants.
Being the current office holder in a succession of legitimate Monarchs.
A huge portion of the people Franco murdered were AFTER the civil war ended. But then again, you think even questioning hereditary dictators should be a crime, so why should be surprised you're an apologist for murder?
The fact that the monarch might be legitimate doesn't mean that they are either a effective or rational leader.
Why are you so eager to relinquish your current rights to a monarch?
And that was wrong, but at that point what choice was there?
If I were just a Spanish peasant who wished to live my life in peace, farming my little plot and going to mass every day, who was a bigger threat to me and my life? Franco? Or the people he killed? Be honest here
The only rights I care about are property and religion.
Monarchy strengthens both.
Democracy eliminates both.
And if I were a Spanish farmer who wanted freedom instead of living under a brutal dictator, Franco would justified in having me murdered?
Well except the Spanish republicans did not bring “freedom” they were controlled by socialist factions. And rural peasantry largely supported Franco
Monarchy destroys religious freedom and the rights of religious people.
Monarchy destroys property rights for anyone who isn't noble.
You didn't answer my question. Franco didn't bring freedom. He brought repression and murder, but after his death the conversion of Spain into a Constitutional Monarchy with democratic elections did bring freedom.
Ok, so The Result of Franco was a constitutional monarchy with better rule of law. so Spain was much better off for Franco then under the Popular Front who if they won would’ve established a Soviet Client state, almost none of the Stalinist communist states in the world from Vietnam to Cuba have become functioning constitutional states. So your own argument fails
Spain was never going to instantly become a constitutional state after the abolition of the monarchy through becoming a communist one.
It seems you’re only upset the repression and murder wasn’t conducted by your preferred faction
And if you had your way, Spain would be an absolutist monarchy with any dissenters being criminalized.
I didn’t say the criminalize dissent, I said questioning the institution of the monarchy itself should be illegal.
I also think certainly Revolutionary ideologies should be proscribed and censored. Like for example, some hate crimes might be prevented if White Nationalism were a proscribed ideology(which I think it should be because it’s contrary to God) and the secret police could monitor them.
I don’t think speech on political issues should be suppressed
That's criminalizing dissent. Any dissenter who objects to being ruled over by an absolute monarch, you want to see criminalized.
Some dissent is like sedition.
If you joined a group dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government you can be arrested for sedition and that would be constitutional
Ah, so now you are deflecting to violent overthrow. If you wanted to convert an absolute monarchy into a democracy by protesting and refusing to cooperate with the government's demand's through peaceful civil disobedience, you'd still be opposing the institution of monarchy and in your freedom-hating world, such advocates should be criminals.
That’s never happened in history. All overthrowing of monarchs have involved violence or the threat of it
Usually after the monarch initiated force against those who wanted to remove him from office. But you of course think those people should have just laid down and died rather than fighting back.
See now you’re deflecting.
The American revolutionaries were not threatened by political repression from King George. They didn’t want to pay taxes to cover a war fought on their behalf.
See you don’t actually support freedom either. You support your own political philosophy which you call “freedom”
As I’ve said, if I had the option of moving to a theocratic catholic state I would. Why can’t I? Because of international leftist movements like the ones you support eliminating all those types of countries. is that freedom?
Democracy is a terrible idea.
Allow me to illustrate.
Say you are traveling for the holidays, and you get on a plane to fly across the country at 35,000 feet.
Things are going well on democracy airlines, but an hour into the flight there’s a problem, and so you hear an announcement on the PA “ladies and gentlemen this is your constitutional president speaking, we have lost control of our engines and the flight attendants will be bringing you ballots to vote on the best solution”
Obviously this is insane, most people on the plane have no idea how to manage anything as complex as a commercial airliner.
So your safety when on the plane is basically an absolute dictatorship of the Captain. The captain is an educated professional who is granted full power over your life and death by a legitimate authority.
Likewise. For the complex business of running state affairs, the legitimate Authority (God through the Church) should be sanctioning one professional King to govern society. Most voters have no appreciation for complex issues and are too short sighted to their own wants.
The American revolutionaries were denied representation and were imposed upon by the dictates of someone they had no power in choosing.
How does having freedom force anything on you? You can be as Catholic and repressed in your personal life as you want. You just want to force that on other people.
No, I want to live where everyone agrees with me and no force is needed except against those who voluntarily wish to tear us down.
Except now the left want to close down churches and religious schools and indoctrinate children into believing porn and masturbation are healthy and living sexually promiscuous lives is “liberating” and that drug and alcohol abuse is normal.
So in fact it’s not me forcing any views on anyone. It’s your team forcing them on me.
So you hate liberty and individual freedoms and want a nation of serfs.
Not surprising, really.
From the point of view of the serfs life was not that bad. Serfs and peasants have never typically been sources of revolution. It’s upper middle class professionals and industrial workers who make rebellion
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