Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Democracy is founded on the notion that all men are equal and that the only legitimate source of power is the will of the people.

An unelected, hereditary position of power fits into that as well as a seagull in an opera.

A monarchy in its original form is just like a military dictatorship, whether it's absolute or not. It contains all the things we do not wish to see in society, like blatant favoritism of useless cronies and royal harlots, a ridiculous focus on war and aggressive foreign politics, botched public works projects, etc etc. It's fascism in both practice and theory. Luckily for all of us, the monarchs in the western world have zero power, and all they can do now is to support reactionary fascists(which they do in abundance) and spend our tax money on $100.000 hats(which they also do in abundance).

They are basically social welfare recipients. Now, I have nothing against social welfare recipients in general, but I do have a problem with them when they recieve millions and show no willingness to ever get a proper job.

Hopefully this relic of ancient times will soon die out. The sooner, the better.
Depends... I'm not sure, if you put it to vote in let's say Great Britain that a majority would want the monarchy to go. So if a majority of voters wants to have a king on top of their democratic government who's to say they can't have one beause it's not democratic?