Historically, how is a system of government that sends its entire country into a frenzy of national hysteria and media sensationalism/propaganda every 4 years better than one which only sees a new ruler ever 50 years or so?
I know we can't talk about current events but looking at it historically, the election cycle is fucking cancerous. Every 4 years it's just absolute soul sucking cancer perpetrated by the MSM that leaks into every facet of your life then you have to repeat the frenzy another 4 years(well more like in another 3) to elect another useless faggot.
Somebody give me a reason why democracy isn't anything but a fucking meme and why we shouldn't just have emperors like Rome did.
Nathan Parker
>marcus aurelius >leftypol
Jackson Foster
The ruled are the rulers peaceful transition of power power to elect out a bad leader maximum distributon of power kill yourself
Kayden Gonzalez
Pic related. /thread
Aaron Diaz
Aurelius onstantly made poor decisoons in military regards. Military command being separated from executive power would be a net positive for the entirety of Rome. Nice arguing against yourself you meme level moron
Camden Ross
ok, I'll give you a few reasons
1. peaceful transition of power. If you have a president who is doing a bad job, you wait a few years and elect someone else. If you have a king who is doing a bad, (funny you should use Marcus Aurelius as your pic because look how much of a fuckup his son was) your only options are to either A. wait until he dies which could take decades and will cause incredible damage to the state, or B. start a revolution and replace him by force which will kill many innocent civilians and implode the economy. And with both of them there's no guarantee the next person will be any better, or the country won't just rip itself apart in a scramble to become king, as happened to Rome every 3 generations or so.
2. In a democracy the power of the leaders comes from the people. If they offend the people through poor policies or corruption they will be thrown out of office. In an autocracy the leader's authority comes through their control of force. So the leader can be as corrupt as they want, and indeed do whatever they want, so long as they still have the support of the military to kill anyone who speaks out against it. This is why autocracy, and arbitrary rule of law almost always goes hand in hand. I don't know about you, but I rather like having institutions where people are equal before the law, instead of people who are the king's friend being allowed to rob the state blind.
3. The idea that autocracies produce better leaders because they don't have to worry about public opinion is complete nonsense. Not everyone is cut out to lead, which is a serious fault of hereditary leadership. Even in the first dynasty of the roman empire we had Caligula and Nero. Looking at modern autocracies would you say that Venezuela for instance has benefited from its dictatorship? Note how political instability has not gone away, they just lock up anyone who wants to move the country in a different direction, and shoot protesters.
Daniel Jones
Democracy is stable, but prone to being captured by cliques and interests and quickly turns into an oligarchy, which does kill its opponents too - do you think people don't disappear under mysterious circumstances all the time in the US for example?
It is no better than other political system with the exception of it being the accepted norm currently, but no better than a focused dictatorship/autocracy. The benefits of constant political struggle every 4 years are outweighed by the social and cultural decay and the constant race to the bottom to find new voters, including involving immigrants or expanding bureaucrac so they vote for you in the next election. I would go as far as to say that modern liberal democracies are far worse in that they are toxic and insidious in their results but they work under the guise of an "ideal" system since they are designed to placate the masses and give them an illusion of being involved in the political system.
Henry Morgan
Yeah, that is why Tiberius sent Germanicus to command the legions and Belisarius was Justinian's chief general. Your argument is invalid.
Brayden Lee
>do you think people don't disappear under mysterious circumstances all the time in the US for example as a matter of fact I do think that people aren't being murdered by political cliques in the US
Samuel Williams
>peaceful transition of power. You called the 2016 media election frenzy circus "peaceful"?
