It's not even a dilemma. With kings and aristocrats, you know exactly who to blame when the government is fucked.
With democracy, you're still ruled by entrenched elites, but they're utterly unaccountable because responsibility for their policies is laundered through a constant churn of temporary policy enactors and "the voting public".
BobsonDugnuttHB /
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2023-09-27 17:41:20
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