Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
The king must die so that the country can live.
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.