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If you were king, there wouldn't be voting in the first place.
by masonic 8y ago
If you were king, there wouldn't be voting in the first place.
- Jetrel 8y agoActually, just for kicks, you might find it interesting to know that quite a few historical monarchies were essentially democracies with extremely limited enfranchisement. A setup where - instead of having a bloody "game-of-thrones" civil war to decide the king - they instead had a large body of nobles vote on the king, was actually pretty common. In fact our Electoral College, as a name, comes from one of these - during the medieval age, in the western heartland of europe (vaguely covering parts of france, switzerland, germany, italy), there were a bunch of little fiefdoms led by nobles who banded together into a big federation called the Holy Roman Empire. They all collectively voted on which noble would become Emperor, and it took several hundred years before one family was able to bend it into being hereditary.
- SahAssar 8y agoThis is basically still the case in the Vatican, Malaysia and Cambodia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy#Current_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elective_monarchy#Current_uses
- masonic 8y agoI disagree that you can call any situation with such limited enfranchisement a "democracy".
- taejo 8y agoI guess the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Sweden are just dreams. I suspected something might be up with Belgium, but I had no inkling about the others.