Hate to break it to you buddy but our system almost is that of a
monarchy already.
The new president will be either Bush or Gore, two
people from established political familes,
GWB being the son of President
George Bush Sr., and Al Gore being the son of Al Gore
Sr., hell, political families are everywhere,
The Kennedys would have had two presidents had it not been for the assassination of
Robert, who was pretty much going to be the
heir apparent when he was assassinated.
The Tafts are a forth generation family
of
Supreme Court Justices who were presidents, governors, and representatives.
And please don't get me started on
The Rockefellers. I
hope they are done with the whole public service thing, no offense ment to the
philanthropical members of the current crop.
Our republic
works oddly like a monarchy, our future determined by the popularity, (as opposed to ideals/morals/issues), age, and lottery of births and deaths
which caused
England so many god damn problems with things like
The Reformation. (Unfortunately, we have
Roe V. Wade as a substitute for
that little holy war.)
The main diffrence between the old system of
Monarchs in
England and ours is that we don't use the
chopping block as a term limit, and frankly I wish we kept the good parts of the system. ;)
As for Divine Wino's observation that the
Revolutionary war was about not having a Bad King as opposed to having a King at all, he is absoloutely correct. This led to a titanic struggle
for independence within the government and our nation to prevent (or cause) our nation from turning into a
Monarchy around the time of
John
Adams and
Thomas Jefferson's rather contradictory terms in office and the enactments of the
Alien and Sedition Acts. If you are intrested in
that sort of thing I strongly recommend reading
American Aurora by
Richard N. Rosenfeld. If you think our current problems are bad, just read
about the elections around this time, where Jefferson was accused of attempting to turn us into a nation of devil worshipping
unitarians,
Washington was vilifed to the point where he quit after his second term, and Adams was generally accused of attempting to create an
American
Monarchy by his enemies, amongst other strange battles.