I am on record as stating that democracy is a lie and trap, designed to remove power over generations from a native people. The only democracies that have ever worked were Ancient Greece and The Republic of Venezia, and both of those examples imposed severe limitations on who could vote. (Technically Venezia was a republic, but for the purposes of the example I’m going to include it; it also shows how thin on the ground successful democracies are.)
The very best government for European nations and their settlements around the world is Catholic monarchy. The reasons for its superiority are many, but I wish to state for the record that tradition has nothing to do with my opinion on this matter. I do not favour the Catholic monarchial system because it is traditional; I favour it because it is the only good and competent governing outcome for my people. The fact that it is traditional and beautiful is a happy coincidence. But in no way shape or form do I pine for Catholic monarchy because I merely want to see kings wearing fancy vestments.
On September 9th, King Felipe VI of Spain called together the leaders of the Spanish military for an emergency meeting regarding the Ceuta crisis. The Spanish president and most of his ministers were forbidden to join the meeting, a power that the monarch holds under the Spanish constitution. The King is acting because the politicians are not acting in the interests of the Spanish people. Politicians never act in the interests of the people that they theatrically claim to represent. They act in the interests of whoever owns them, and any politician of note has been bought and sold long before they entered politics. In fact, for many politicians, the fact that they are owned is the very reason the entered into politics in the first place.
A monarch cannot usually be bought and sold, as a monarch has no need for such pettiness. Many monarchs have been purchased over the centuries, but a far greater number resisted such attacks, and often punished those attempting such grabs for power.
Monarchs are of the same genetic line as the populace over which they rule. They are indeed their own people. No Catholic monarch in the history of mankind has ever sought to replace his own people with foreigners. However, a smart monarch will recognise if his people are disadvantaged when compared to other nations with whom they are trying to compete. Therefore a credible monarchy will seek to attract the best and brightest of other nations to its own, while always keeping their numbers as a small percentage of the general population. Fertility in a nation is an outcome of female emancipation – the more emancipation then the less fertility. A Catholic family in a Catholic nation is ordered under God, and the power of the husband as the head of the family is not infringed upon. In such a context, birthrates in a Catholic monarchy are usually well above replacement levels.
As a Catholic, a monarch is answerable not only to his people, but to God. A monarch who does actually believe in God will always try to do the right thing by God, not by outside vested interests. The freemasonic principle of separation of Church and state is forbidden in a Catholic monarchy; the king consults with religious leaders on a regular basis. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech are two further freemasonic abominations that are never allowed in a proper Catholic monarchy.
A monarchy makes decisions thinking of the long term benefits and costs, not a four year election cycle. While a monarch needs to keep his people content, he is not beholden to Gallop poles and the like. A monarchy consists of a functional and identifiable hierarchy, where every man at every level must respond to his own lord. A man needs to have a lord, a man needs structure. To stand up and be counted when called upon, to show his worth to his lord.
A Catholic monarchy does not mean a simpler time, it does not imply outdated technology. But whereas democracies must innovate merely for the sake of innovation, a monarchy can be driven by different priorities. It can innovate for reasons related to the betterment of its people, rather than the betterment of shareholders.
With the level of discontent today among the peoples of the West, a return of an actual Catholic monarchy would attract the best and the brightest purely as a consequence of its existence. And the rise of an actual Catholic monarch might be the only thing that can pull the Church out of its Vatican II death dive. The pope, when actually a pope, is a monarch, an emperor as it were. Those powers that were responsible for destroying the Catholic monarchies now seek to destroy the seat of St Peter by making the Church a democracy. Catholic monarchies and the Papal State are symbiotic with one another.
And yes, Catholic monarchies are beautiful. There is nothing wrong with longing for beauty, for what is good and true. We live in an era of ugliness and evil, an era of democracies. It cannot end fast enough.
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