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If you look at even absolutist monarchs in Europe, they have constituents (lobbying groups) they have to listen to, the peasants and townfolks to appease, the n
by gotorazor 4y ago
If you look at even absolutist monarchs in Europe, they have constituents (lobbying groups) they have to listen to, the peasants and townfolks to appease, the nobility to seek support from, powerful breakaway independent Lords to manage, potential rival claimants inside and outside the kingdom.
Politics still happens outside of democracies.
The difference is just that our system of government, the "People" is given a formal primacy. Corruptions and short-term thinking happens with or without elections.
- lapcat 4y ago> Politics still happens outside of democracies. Nobody is suggesting that a randomly selected legislature shouldn't listen to anyone outside themselves. The difference is that a randomly selected legislature for fixed single term in office never has to worry about gaining or maintaining power, because they will definitely lose power when their term in office is up. Whereas both elected politicians and monarchs always have to worry about gaining and maintaining power, the former via elections and the latter via military superiority over rivals. Politicians lose elections, whereas monarchs lose their heads. ;-)