Kings and Queens

I follow Mencius Moldbug's blog. Although he's a bit of a rambling and disorganized writer, his diagnosis of the problems with American democracy is pretty good once you wade through to the key insights. His solution though, establishing a new monarchy, leaves a lot to be desired. I was reminded of that by this piece linked to by Instapundit this morning. A judicial minarchy may be hard to maintain because of the tendency all governments have to aggrandize their power, but I'd prefer that to absolute rule by one person and his or her cronies. Obviously, I've never experienced monarchy, but the things I read make me wonder how different it really was from today's elite-captured "democracy."