"Politics" is the form of governance in an ancient Greek polis or city-state, with an elected, representative government (a democracy/republic). Please note, ancient Greek democracy required sitting government officials to administer the state, i.e. bureaucrats, and had elections for who would represent the people. There isn't much difference at all between what we call a "democracy" and what we call a "republic." Both are representative forms of government where citizens elect who represents them. And politics only exists in representative governments.In a monarchy, there is no politics: no battle within the convoluted will of the population. There is courtly intrigue, as ministers to the monarch push their own agendas and try to gain the sovereign's favor, but it is a stretch to call this "politics," because no representation of the people exists in this system; rather, the king (or queen regnant) is God or Heaven's representative on earth for that specific nation. In Medieval Europe, the monarch was God's representative, who spoke for God and acted in God's name. In Imperial China, the emperor was mandated by Heaven. In every monarchy, the sovereign is legitimized by the divine, or rather, by the religious establishment and the traditional religious beliefs of the culture.Politics is bad. It always results in violence and civil wars, and then, to top it all off, every representative government, which is to say every political government or democracy/republic, ends up back in monarchy, which is the default state of complex human societies. Only four representative governments, i.e. democracies/republics, existed before 1776: Ancient Greece (particularly Athens), the Roman Republic, the Florentine Republic, and the Dutch Republic. All ended up back in monarchy.The people need no say. They don't know how to govern, and they themselves are governed by their passions. Real freedom is not the right to do what you want, but is the right to do what is right.
>>515400143[continued] Freedom is the right to make the moral choice. As Edmund Burke said:>“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.If a free society abuses its freedom, then nature will ensure freedom ends along with the chaos that abused freedom causes, and nature will restore order.Societies cannot long endure chaos.So lovers of freedom must behave, or nature will remove their freedom and give them a king or queen to rule them and make all the public decisions. If history is any guide, or modern representative governments, which have all been instituted since the Enlightenment, and with it, the American and French Revolutions, will revert to monarchies after some period of civil wars, when the tempers of the masses overwhelm society's capacity to handle their agitations.
>>515400143There's definitely politics under a monarchic system especially if there's any form of Assembly of Peers (Parliament etc) and just look at The Wars of Religion alone for civil violence under monarchies. I do agree that monarchies are objectively better because the plebes are retarded and they only elect retards except in very rare cases like Hitler.
>>515400849Hitler was appointed, not elected.Also, yes, parliamentary monarchies have politics, but no absolute monarchy does, and most monarchies across the world, throughout history, have been absolute monarchies.Any form of representation of the people (even of the nobles) is, historically, exceedingly rare.
>>515401552Yes he was technically appointed but it was a coalition appointment because the Nazis were voted in
