Comments on: The divine right of kings

By: Didact

Didact — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 12:17:53 +0000

In reply to Chris. I agree, there will be a king of some kind, but I suspect it will happen much faster than we expect. Either the USSA will break apart into a number of different nations, OR a strong central king-like figure will arise as an absolute dictator. I only hope and pray that the latter option will result in a sane, restrained, moderately conservative, enthusiastically Christian king. But that is a very tall order, given how broken and debased the USSA has become. I am not optimistic about the future in the US, to put it mildly.

By: Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:03:09 +0000

You forgot to mention Darius the Great's takedown of democracy from Herodotus' The Histories. He predates Plato by about 200 years. In other words, we've known about this for a good while.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 19:50:37 +0000

No comments!?! Must have been a busy day. Great article. I mention the American Revolution to my own children a lot. Basically, a bunch of spoiled British aristocrats got upset by what amounted in total to about 5% tax on income. Then they drug the rest of the populace into it. It wasn’t until the French sided with the Americans that we “won” the war. Now look at us. Real marginal tax rates are between 30% and 50% when all the various taxes are considered, even the hidden ones from regulations that make the products and services that much more expensive.

There is a similar book title, “Liberty – The God That Failed” that I have on my shelf. It’s a bit of a tome and written from a Catholic perspective, but makes salient points throughout. When we won’t voluntarily submit to God, when we won’t enforce His laws, we experience the chaos we are seeing today.

If we in America don’t descend into a Leftist version of 1984, I predict some sort of king/nobility will be installed in the next couple of generations.