Antiochus, tradition is the main thing that gives you a sense of identity. When tradition is gone, your identity is gone with it and you're nothing but a drone eating, shiting and sleeping. Have you read Japan's former constitution? the first article " Japan is forever ruled by an imperial dinasty". Without Emperour Meji the revolution would have never succeded. It is the only revolution with support from people in high places. The prime ministers ware responsible in front of the Emperour. The Emperour's person was sacred and inviolable. The simple opinions of the Emperour ware commands. If there wasn't a powerful icon such as Emperour Meji, Japan might have been transformed into a Brittish colony.
When you imagine a monarchy you tend to think about "Les Miserables" and Louis XVI.Well, during Louis XVI France was expanding its economy despite the "American Independence War" and other european conflicts. He had to loan great sums of money to cover the expenditures from the bankers but he never paid them back.
The bankers ware quite angry with it and used the masses to start a revolution. What happened next? Years of terror and purges made by romantic revolutionary heroes that supported democracy against tirany, the Napoleonic wars and the end of France as a world power.
I can say Antiochus that you've been subjected to liberal propaganda......and that's fallacious too. Argumentum ad populum vs. Argumentum ad Antiquitatem.