Watched an interesting video today when I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole. It was about the theoretical line of succession if Washington had been declared King. One of the potential lines ended up with Robert E Lee's blood line as King. Funny how things work out.
Monarchies suck. Period.
Throughout history, the obscene corruption, depravity, greed, darkness, heartless meanness of "the chosen blue blood" blood lines - is hard to accept.
Which - (taking this thread in an entire different direction) - came to light via a recent book I listened to. "Laptop from Hell" by Miranda Devine. It is about Hunter Biden's laptop, and before people go discrediting it based on the author, it is mostly recorded, available to public, quotes and writings directly from Hunter, Joe, the rest of the Biden family and his crook friends in the US/China/Russia government.
Yes it is true that Hunter is possibly the most corrupt, unethical, immoral, worthless, mean, criminal, stupid POS human in public life today . Way too much to go into here re: drugs, illicit sex including inside his own family, corruption and swindling of millions by cozying China and Ukraine, etc.
The main point of the book is - both parties - it is so clear there are (at least) two classes of people in US. We don't live in a free representative republic, and likely haven't for decades.
1. There is one class of favored people who can do, say, get, screw, consume, cheat literally whoever or whatever they want - all the power and money in the world is theirs just for the asking and taking, not merit based at all - based on their political name, power, etc. Think Kennedys, Kerrys, Clintons, Obamas, Bushes? Trumps? Bidens
2 - Then there is the other class - all the "suckers", the little people, the plebes who work hard, play by the rules, pay taxes, are fair and ethical and treat people right, and have dignity and earn respect. Group 1 and group 2 are polar opposites.
Group 2 gets screwed so hard in this country by group 1. It is nearing a breaking point.
Anyway - it is a pretty interesting read - especially re: how little regard (zero really) Hunter or Joe have for rule of law, ethics, morality, truth. Sick people.
Many would say we unfortunately live under the rule of King Dementia DumbF--- now; others would say we just got done with being under the rule of King Orange DumbF---
My point is we were never intended to be under the rule of these sorts of people, with way too much power. People wanted a king at time of Washington. He refused, he knew what was so bad about kings, monarchies. There are few if any people as leaders today as wise as the founders were about these sorts of self-government vs. monarchy topics.