Monarchists

[a completely inoffensive name]

It is not unfounded, you haven't been watching enough Disney movies or Tales of kings and princesses and knights of round table.

lol, well you are right about Disney. I don't really care for Disney movies nowadays, too stupid (Hanna Montana etc..).

Anyone who feels the head of state should be a mere political animal is lacking in reason.

The idea that any man in a position of power is anything more then a mere political animal is false.

As if the electoral farse in the United States means your president is the result of a clear and self-conscious majority, instead of one brainwashed by the media in name of the most money filled guy. I do not want this discussion to twist in that direction, but if McCain had more funds and support from his own party base (as well as bit more electioneering skill in choosing a charismatic VP) he would have won, purely and simply, despite the history of Republican rule - it turns out that every electoral machine in your beloved states is a slave to the interests of a restrict oligarchy, not much different from other regimes except in ostensible appearances.

So, for me, it is better to hope at an "enlightened ruler" than to nurture idealistic illusions about the true essence of a democratic regime. Heh, the only advantage to a more "democratic" system, is that at least we can open our mouths, as irrelevant as it will turn out to the general state of affairs and the dominance of the few behind the curtains.

Of course, it is so much more reasonable for the public to sit around and hope to be blessed with the birth of an enlightened ruler to be born then to actually give the public the power and means to put such an enlightened ruler there whenever they want.

I will not argue that our system is not flawed, but I have to laugh that the idea that any monarch with no accountability will genuinely put the public above everything else, including himself is not recognized as a farce in itself.