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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hello new person, I'm somewhat alt-left oriented as well. I also hate the new woke left attitude, and agree with you on some of these things. I am all for gay rights, but not this trans ideology, they are like evangelicals who want to force people to conform to their ideology. IDGAF what people want to do in their private lives, but all this canceling and make-believe pronoun shit is not OK with me.

I also care about the environment and am no fan of capitalism, although I'd hesitate to call myself a communist or socialist, and am absolutely terrified by the idea of combining monarchy with communism, seems like an authoritarian nightmare. Personally I'd prefer my communism of the anarcho- variety, but would support the scandinavian model of faux-neo-socialism as an improvement (this is just capitalism with high taxes and a robust social safety net).

But anyways, it'll be nice to have another person around who likes discussing political and economic theory

[–]Enlighten3d[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

and am absolutely terrified by the idea of combining monarchy with communism, seems like an authoritarian nightmare

yea, your concerns are pretty reasonable. Honestly I just want to personally decide, maybe it's almost impossible for me to achieve this, but this is just my personal view that I would be good "king" (this sounds funny). This is not important for me, so I'll be fine with normal parliamentary system. and yes, we had some examples of monarcho-"communist" like stalin that prove this might went into nightmare.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, a society with a 'good' ruler is probably preferable to rule of the masses, I do sympathize with the Nietzschean type of elitism and understand where you are coming from. I also think a bad ruler is probably worse than democracy, and I have seen too many of them. Its like the Stanford Prison experiments, giving people this kind of authority over others tends to lead to abuses of power, I think it isi unfortunately human nature, and the type of person who can wield this responsibly is rare.

[–]Enlighten3d[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also think a bad ruler is probably worse than democracy

I'd say always is far worse. The bad part is there are some to this day. Although there were rare cases of good kings. (yea I believe in objective morality btw xD)

That's why tripartite governance is neccesary, even "king" shouldn't have unlimited power and be out of control.