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Uh, yeah, which is why "democracies are certainly more stable than monarchy" doesn't make any sense.

> modern democracies which haven’t existed long enough to compare with monarachy in terms of resilience.

lol, dude. Western democracy has been been on the wane for a long time now, and it's unironically just about over. The West is either going to continue down its path towards less democracy and plutocrat/oligarch/jurist rule with politics as bread and circuses (very bad, an intensification of what we have right now) -- or make a hard break towards more democracy and prole/populist mob rule (not necessarily a bad thing, unless you're a political extremist like, perhaps ironically, Yarvin himself.)

Polybius saw it all, in his day.

<-- Ochlocracy <--> Democracy <--> Oligarchy -->




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