Nepal, a landlocked country situated between China and India, today switch from a monarchy to a republic, a historic move that ended about 240 years of autocratic rule in the country. more keydates Your thought?
I smell lubricating oil on a guillotine. Moreover, monarchy is preferrable to rule by the mob. As such, I do not find this a preferrable shift. Plus, how undeniably unromantic is it to dispense with tradition?
I do not see an essential value to democracy in and of itself. If anything, democracy is an aberration as much as it lionizes the mob. An aristocratic republic, perhaps, but a democracy? I do not think there is any ethical or political concerns that are best addressed by this model. But yes, tradition ought to determine that a monarchy remain in power, at least in name. A constitutional monarchy is preferrable to a pure republic for this reason. There is something to be said for the aesthetics of royalty, regardless of their political power being superceded by a more republican form.
I am not particularly interested in what the mob holds to be right, wrong, preferrable, unprefferable, beautiful, ugly, truth, or falsehood. Their position is not bolstered in the least by being numerous.