Should America revoke democracy and install a King?

Think about it. Say if we appointed someone REALLY smart like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking or Noam Chomsky. Do an IQ test or something. How much better than democracy would that be? Sensible decisions based on reason, not impulsive ones based on one's stomach and bank account. No influence from those damn corporations. Long-term decision making and no political point gathering. And best of all - no blasted political discussion on tv, the radio and newspapers. Silence at last. Sounds perfect to me. Long Live the King!

 

His ideas would eventually become stale and stagnant

 

Corruption is still a problem. Obviously as King he'd have to appoint a court like situation which places others in positions of power, and the risk of abuse of that power at some point in time is very high. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

That's because it's run by politicians. A top scientist like Einstein becoming corrupt? I doubt it, but oh well. The current system is both corrupt, stale and stagnant too. At least with a king you wouldn't have all the bickering, just decisions made with some intelligence.

 

Scientists would make a terrible king because of the simple fact they don't want to be politicians. They'd fail at the job because they don't want to do it, there's nothing of interest in it for them. In fact we can sum up in Einstein's own words, he was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 after the death of its first president, a post that in nature like in most parliamentary systems is mostly ceremonial but

Governing isn't always about doing what's right and wrong and often doesn't have a right or wrong and isn't of interest for people who want to work in completely objective subjects.

 

That's the point. A king's decisions are subjective, not objective, so old Albert would be not undertaking the role he thought he would be when he made that statement. He wouldn't really be dealing with many people at all, as King. It's just matter of having a smart person make those decisions.

 

Absolutely.

Give to much power to anybody or any unity and they all become corrupt in due time. That includes: politicians, managers, criminals, teachers, principals, policemen, scientists, military personnel, banker, judge, group, organization, lobby, union, corporation, government, nation, etc.

History shows time and time again, that giving too much power for a variable length of time, corruption is inevitable.

 

George Washington turned down his opportunity to become king of the United States.

An opportunity any politician nowadays would kill their own children for.

 

Well what if Jesus came back? He's incorruptible.

 

Governing a nation is subjective, this isn't physics or geometry, there is no correct answer otherwise being president, prime minister, whatever be it regardless of your system of government would be a really easy job.

 

:rofl:

Ooh ooh! David Blaine!

 

my vote is for kanye west

not that you get to vote or anything

but he already acts like king of somethin', keep it comin'

 

No.

I don't argree with them forcing us to vote between a group of people that we don't like, but it's better than having a king with ultimate control. Just imagine if they went batshit crazy and wanted to take over the world. That's worse case scenario ofcourse but still, more bad would come than good in my opinion.

 

Anything can work it's all about the condition of the human being.

 

No one said anything about ultimate control, just as much contol as a prime minister or president has, which isn't that much.

 

his coming.


to slay all those with dreads.

 

So what you're saying is a president that doesn't need elected, and can't be fired?

Still not a good idea.

 

Oh well, neither is democracy.

 

Monarchy's one of those things that sounds great on paper, but simply doesn't work-99% of the time, that is.

I've known a few people (Americans) that claim to be monarchists, but if a monarch took power and started doing things they didn't like, I'm sure they'd be the first to start raising hell about it. Besides, are we talking about an absolute monarchy, or one where the monarch has limited powers?

 

Not in that order. If you install a king, that is evidence of the democratic motion of youalls, so that would not occur if democracy was revoked.
Kings of royal blood are born.