I will never understand why people who reject monarchy still make the pretense of constitutional monarchy. Far from rejecting monarchy, they become like most monarchists in general (because most are constitutional monarchists). I'd rather see people who reject monarchy move on a leader or dictator figure.
It is the lamest, most trite hoary, uninspired old Victorian 19th century anachronistic fad of Monarchy imaginable.
It isn't as if mixed constitutionalism is an innovation. I'd agree it has been the default mode throughout the Middle Ages and so on, and like Jean Bodin says since the days of Aristotle and even before Aristotle to the time of Herodotus.
I understand the appeal to universal suffrage, but even the politicians people vote for nobody settles to have as a mere figurehead – rather they expect genuine leadership and governance. This prospect mustn't block off the Sun or the longing for leadership.
I guess because Hegel liked "constitutional monarchy" but again it was a fad of the Victorian era and to be frank a very insipid fad that never really engaged with monarchy.
I anticipate when people settle for constitutional monarchy, it is their own disbelief in the institution of monarchy itself: when people truly believe, the sky is the limit and they anticipate they can move mountains with the rulers. It is a lack of confidence in institutional Christianity and High Churchism and a also a lack of confidence in the idea of royalty in general, that makes people republicans for royalty (not trusting them to ride a horse) and rather the most avid monarchists for their great statesmen instead, treating them as prophets. That is all. (Not that people were ever shy to embrace an Absolutism of their own; that was never the case). It is just that embracing constitutional monarchy means rejecting monarchical preeminence entirely.
I cannot wait for the hegemony of this idea
constitutional monarchy to face its next setback or be challenged again, but for now it continues to pervade.
Out of all the socialists I have encountered (& in contempt of the Windsorite r/monarchosocialism), I have to express that Ferdinand Lassalle is the only Western socialist who has seen the light and had the balls to renounce mixed constitutionalism (in spite of denouncing absolutism throughout his political career like in his speech
No Compromise which details his contempt for pseudo-constitutionalism which he took as a vict
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