Medieval Monarchy vs Democracy

“By familiarizing oneself with other times, other eras, other civilizations, one acquires the habit of distrusting criteria of one's own time.”
-Regine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages Debunking the Myths Ignatius press San Francisco

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”
-H.L Mencken

“Every age is befooled by the notions which are in fashion in it. Our age is befooled by " democracy."
-WG Sumnner quoted in Liberty or Equality the Challenge of our Time

“Tradition means giving a vote to that most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man’s opinion, even if he is our father.”
-G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy; Chapter 4; 1908


A Critical Look at Democracy -Divide or Unify? Liberty or Bondage? Legalized Theft and Crime -Tyranny and Exploitation by the Privileged Class of Politicians and the Totalitarian Nature of Democracy

“[in democracy]A man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men practise this tyranny over him by the use of the ballot. He sees further that, if he will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by subjecting them to his own. In short, he finds himself, without his consent, so situated that, if he use the ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, he must become a slave. And he has no other alternative than these two.
-Lysander Spooner

“Politics makes us view each other as enemies...The structure of democratic politics actually gives me reason to despise most of my politically active fellow citizens”
-Jason Brennan Against Democracy Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford 2017

“a time when those who obtained their wealth from government would compose the numerical majority , and this numerical majority would always vote for those politicians who promised to tax or otherwise exploit the numerical minority... uses governments monopoly on the use of force to compel the productive element to transfer its wealth to the non productive element. This is the end stage of all mass democracies.”
-James and Walter Kennedy Nullifying Tyranny Pelican Press 2010

A Monarchy avoids many of the downfalls of our various democracies as interest groups and politicians cannot divide us into groups and set us against each other as in every democracy. As Jason Brenan in his book Against Democracy is simply “a battle over who will acquire the power to force the other side to bend to its will” Democracy turns us into civil enemies within a nation and even within families. So much anger and hatred is caused by dividing us into groups and teams [republican/democrat] causing tribal inclinations to see those outside the group as evil. Multiple studies examining brain function show we are bias towards our group willing to accept what we would not of the other groups as we make choices in irrational ways, and in fact on emotion, and even gain pleasure by trashing dissenters [other political parties members] and as James and Walter Kennedy in Nullifying Tyranny wrote “ democracies ultimately degenerate into a system that divides citizens against each other.” And places the into rival herds.

“The true "herdist" will carefully avoid acting or thinking originally, in order not to destroy the uniformity which is so dear to him, and he is also ready to rise immediately against anybody who dares to act independently and thus destroy the sacred unity of the uniform group to which he belongs. The loyal herdist will not rise alone against the sacrilegious offender; he will have the support of the rest of the circumscribed society and thus a mass action of collective protest will take place, forcing the "lonely individual" to conform or to withdraw.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt- Leddihn The Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large Bruce Publishing Company Milwaukee 1943

Democracy encourages the violation of two of the ten commandments, Covetousness and theft. Alexis de Tocqueville said ““Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: " Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.” And Count Montalembert was quoted by Leddihn as saying “since equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny....democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude.” Tage Lindbom in his book the myth of democracy writes “equality is a menace for liberty, it can become a means of oppression in the hands of a central authority”

In democracies the government teaches its people to covet and steal [tax from other producing citizens] as a pay off for votes to keep them in power. The “rich” being whoever they can tax, the “poor” arbitrarily defined as those who they can purchase votes from by stealing other citizens money. In a democracy where politicians are always under pressure to maintain their privileged status, the ruling class will always find new groups of “have-nots” that must be given other peoples money and industries that must be bailed out, or subsides given or else, we are told, the economy will faulter. As Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe said “Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage”

“The fact that the oppressing groups is larger and the oppressed group is smaller in no way changes the fact the oppression or theft is a violation of the principles of self ownership... the evil nature of oppression is not altered even if the evil act is approved by a majority vote.”
-James and Walter Kennedy Nullifying tyranny pelican press 2010

Once a majority are dependent on government they will vote in politicians who will aid the theft of others money on a grand scale. This will lead to half the population as wager slaves to master government, and the other half dependent slaves to government. The politician who can offer the most to the most people, wins. This of course hurts the people in a democracy and the production. The more given to the poor the more incentive too not plan for the future, not produce , and instead rely on government. The more stolen from the producers the less incentive to produce.

“Because the members of the privileged [receive welfare] sex,race, or age group are awarded an unearned income, they have less of an incentive to earn one in the future, and because the members of the discriminated [producers] sex, race, or age group are punished for possessing wealth or having produced an income, they, too, will be less productive in the future.”
-Hans- Hermann Hoppe Democracy the God that Failed The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural OrderRoutledge 2001

Neither do democratic politicians care of the future of the nation just there own power so long as they are in office [see national debt]. Politicians in a democracy do not care if its people are worse off as they dont pass on their power to their children and are retired or out of office by the time their policies take full effect and can blame it on the other political party now in power. So they seek immediate benefits through exploitation of their privileged position rather than long term benefits for the country. Higher taxes means better off for the privileged now. Instead of the Gold and Silver commodity of the past today democracies steal more of the producers money by inflation. No medieval King could get away with this and live. Why must a family have two incomes today? See your IRS office. Tax theft and inflation.

In a democracy anyone can gain power so they tend to be less resistance to government abuse since many politicians hope they will reach high levels of government and in turn also gain through corruption for themselves or their ideology. In a monarchy you can only be born into the position so those who have no chance are less willing to tolerate abuses. The “tyranny of numbers” historically has destroyed liberty more so than monarchies. No one's property or liberty is safe from the majority if they dont think like you and chances are they will think as the government teaches them through education. Government tyranny in a democracy is hidden by anonymity and numbers. If a King were to become tyrannical, he and he alone, would be to blame. Thus making his tyranny in the open and without half the country benefiting as no one would benefit. A king would be alone reliable for debt and it would pass on to his kids while congress and a president simply pass it on to the next elected officials who will do the same and all of “we the people” suffer from it in a democracy. In democracy the laws being inconsistent - what is crime today might not be in the future. Has led to relativism [taught in all democracies via government education] and makes it hard to predict for the uncertain future.

As Hoppe points out when responsibility left the individual and became a “social” responsibility of the whole of the people [democracy] this led to expansion of crime, moral decay, and the destruction of the family. The family is perhaps the enemy of democracy and why the traditional family is always under attack in democratic nations. As a moral producing extended family can take care of itself with no dependency on government. Democracies always seek to take kids out of the negative influence of parents and into the hands of the government to properly educate them.

“In the United States, less than a century of full blown democracy [Woodrow Wilson] has resulted in steady increasing moral degeneration, family and social disintegration and cultural decay in the form of continually rising rates of divorce, illegitimacy, abortion, and crime. As a result of ever exspanding list of non discrimination “affirmative action” laws and multiculturalism, egalitarian, immigration policies, and every nook and cranny of American society is effected by government management and forighn interrogation. According, social strife and racial, ethnic, and moral- cultural tension and hostility have increased dramatically.”
-Hans- Hermann Hoppe Democracy the God that Failed The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order Routledge 2001

“Family incomes are eroded due to inflation and the heavy taxation levied by the welfare state, forcing both parents into the workforce... little space remains for children, who according to the consumptioninist mindset are burdensome an obstacle to the enjoyment to the enjoyment of life. With the family so weakened, the state steps in as a substitute. The dissolution of the family is a work spearheaded by the democratic state.”
-Christophe Buffin de Chosal the end of Democracy Tomblar House 2017

Today's crime rates in modern democracy are vastly higher than before welfare in America and higher than any comparison to even the worst of the wild west. Further in the wild west murders were typically 1 v 1 fair fights/duels agreed upon. Before Lyndon Johnson and the great society that brought massive welfare in America [aimed at African Americans] African American crime rates were low and the family unit together. From 1890-1950 in America the black family unit was almost equaled white family rates. Than in early 1960's the breakup of the black family caused by progressive democrats to control the votes of the population. No other one group votes so one sided and relies on government help like blacks in America. The black father has been replaced by big brother. Author of The Guardian of the RepublicAfrican American Allen West says of government dependency “the breakdown of the family. Of all the consequences of the Great Society programs and the War on Poverty, intended or otherwise, the destruction of the black family has been the most disastrous. More than 70 percent of black children are born outside of marriage. That is an epidemic. And if you take into account the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s statistics that close to three hundred thousand black babies are aborted annually, are we looking at racial genocide?......The brilliant idea for this tragedy came from the progressive socialists of the Johnson administration who thought government should provide welfare payments to women who purposely had children out of wedlock and did not seek to get married or have a male living in the same home. In other words, the Johnson administration was promoting the disintegration of the moral fiber of the black community. Furthermore, the government would send our social workers to inspect the households and ensure there were no males residing in the home, because if there were, the benefits would be cut off. As long as women remained single, they could stay on these programs and receive free health care, housing, and babysitting services for life...But the Great Society has left a legacy of economic dependence, a new form of slavery, and to me, a far more dangerous one, because it destroys the will and determination to excel. The Great Society has turned out to be a big lie, and sadly, those in my community who bought into it are stuck on the twenty-first-century plantation...To me it’s worse than physical enslavement, because it enslaves human spirit. It destroys the will and determination to seek improvement and a better life.”

“Egalitarianism under the best circumstances becomes hypocrisy; if sincerely accepted and believed in, its menace is greater. Then all actual inequalities appear without exception to be unjust, immoral, intolerable. Hatred, unhappiness, tension, a general maladjustment is the result. The situation is even worse when brutal efforts are made Ill] to establish equality through a process of artificial levelling (" social engineering ") which can only be done by force, restrictions, or terror, and the outcome is a complete loss of liberty.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Liberty or Equality the Challenge of our Time Caxton Printers LTD Galdwell Idaho 1952

Social security and welfare reduces the importance of an extended family close relationships and marriage. The progressive welfare state undermined hard work and the family unit. It penalizes the family unit, the stable block that produces free wealthy people. Democracy encourages people to not care for themselves, instead to have the government do so. Before the dependency that politicians aimed at the black family, only 7% of black children were born outside marriage. Today 70% of black American children are born outside of marriage. By eroding marriage, the welfare state has made many Americans less capable of self-support than they were when the “War on Poverty” began. In 1950's Harlem, 90% of black babies were born into the family unit, unemployment, drugs, gangs were all down. Half of all blacks were in the middle class and closing in on whites. No government dependency. Than the government aimed dependency came in. Government replaced the father and crime rose, poverty rose, and drugs rose with no father in the home. By the 1980′s 70-80% percent of black babies were born to unwed mothers. These mothers lived their lives dependent on the government. Their children grew up also depended on the government, and the vicious cycle of dependency began. When you take out the breakup of the family of blacks, the outcome is equal to whites in finical outcome. Hoppe in democracy the God that failed wrote “As the governments family policy is implemented, divorce singldom, single parenting, and illegitimacy.... and frequency of “non traditional” lifestyles increase as well paralleled to this will be gradual but steady surge in crime.”

“If, finally, the bad government is carried on by the multitude, it is called a democracy, i.e. control by the populace, which comes about when the plebeian people by force of numbers oppress the rich. In this way the whole people will be as one tyrant.”
-Thomas Aquinas On Kingship to the king of Cyrus 1225-1274

What if in 200 years people were to look back at out governmental welfare state today. They would say this is clearly the upper class people in high position [politicians] who are saying to great masses of people, we will steal money from other people and give to you if you vote for us. Knowing the politicians are living large, not sacrificing their own to help the poor. Would they not say this is clearly legalized crime, stealing, and bribery to keep the powerful in power. The results also hurt and enslave those they are suppose to help. This may rightly be seen as a clear evil that is allowed. Yet the people of today truly believe they are not just helping those it hurts, but that it is the moral thing to do.

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
-H L Mencken


Democracy the Road to Socialism -Communism and Totalitarianism

“Democracy is the road to socialism”
-Karl Marx

“Communism, in fact, has practically dropped its own label for what it declares to be its perfect synonym, democracy.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt- Leddihn The Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large Bruce Publishing Company Milwaukee 1943

“accepted slavery in a different form... While most believed democracy meant freedom, quite the opposite was the case. Actually, democracy...is a far greater danger to liberty long-term than is a monarchy... the bulk of society still remain slaves of the state....when a child is born, he is automatically owned by the state, and therefore is the property of the state. This means he is subject to extortion for life. He is issued a birth certificate, and a claim is filed stating that he is a U.S. citizen. As a U.S. citizen, he is subject to theft by the state in the form of mandatory and forcible taxation. This is simply thievery where government takes what property its citizens earn for its own nefarious use. In addition, almost nothing is allowed without a permission slip in the form of licenses issued by the state. Virtually everything is regulated, and most behavior, regardless whether anyone is harmed or not, is restricted under the threat of prosecution, incarceration, or death.”
-Gary D Barnett The Invention of Modern Slavery Called Democracy

Democracies and mass voting will eventually no matter the barriers, move to socialism/communism progressivism and totalitarianism. All the totalitarian states communism, fascism, socialism etc began as democracies. All democracies move towards and are in reality, totalitarian. As Chosal in his book the end of democracy states “ Democracy is itself totalitarian.” and Professor Clyde Wilson in whatever happened to democracy wrote “ The thoughtful have always understood that there is a tension between democracy and liberty. They do not naturally go together, in fact are logically in conflict.” Professor Hoppe in his book democracy the God that failed wrote ““Rapid growth of state power....systematic outcome of democracy and the democratic mindset.” Since Aristotle in politics and Plato in republic, critics of democracy have pointed out democracy will naturally evolve in tyranny.

“Whenever it has ever extended its empire, it has infringed on individual liberty and responsibility, private property, and free enterprise.... its grip on opinion, education and culture has led to irreversible damage. The democratic state has everywhere imposed egalitarianism moral relativism, legal conformity, the debasement of culture, and the reduction of individual freedoms all for its own profit.”
-Christophe Buffin de Chosal the end of Democracy Tomblar House 2017

J.J Bachofen said “Because I love freedom, I hate democracy.” Today the government is involved with every aspect of our lives. We all live through it and see it in the news daily. Liberalism has been defined by professor Clyde Wilson as “The posing of emotional problems to be solved by mass emotional concern leading to government action, never mind what action.” Politicians will find no end to scaring the public into more government control weather it be climate change, or any number of imaginative fears that would cause the people to ask for salvation from those fears via government intervention.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
- H. L. Mencken

“Fear is the foundation of most governments”
-John Adams

The government will always be their to save us from those hobgoblins. Further it will never actually fix the issue, for if it did, its services control and money/power would no longer be needed. Look at the “war on drugs.” If there were no more addicts the entire structure would be gone and they would no longer be needed. That is why they go after the drug instead of getting to the heart of the issue, the user. Than they can blame it on the drug, ask for large sums of money, and it seems they might be effective at times by throwing its citizens into prison. But than new more dangerous drugs appear and the drug, we are told, it what causes the user. So of course we need more police/government funding as who could ever be for kids doing drugs. So they will avoid the root cause and issues [liberal philosophy in schools- breakdown of family by welfare- removal of Christianity/bible from society] and instead run in circles that will favor them and hurt us.

“There is little doubt that the American Congress or the French Chambers have a power over their nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III, were they alive today. Not only prohibition, but also the income tax declaration, selective service, obligatory schooling, the fingerprinting of blameless citizens, premarital blood tests—none of these totalitarian measures would even the royal absolutism of the seventeenth century have dared to introduce.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Liberty or Equality the Challenge of our Time Caxton Printers LTD Galdwell Idaho 1952

Than with lists of safety regulations on anything from travel to food, to every aspect of out lives. We end up with girl scouts being fined $500 for selling lemonade in the wrong zoning area. Our betters tell us what cooking oil we can use, what foods we can eat, wheat health care we may have, where and what animals we are allowed to raise on our property, what light bulbs we can use, regulations on parachute jumping, manufacturing, farmers arrested for selling raw milk by swat teams who confiscate their farm property, regulate organic farms out of business while subsidizing industrial farming system. We are denied due process if we are suspected of terrorism, the patriot act allows federal agents to write their own search warrants and wiretapping operations. A section of the marine corps is being trained in domestic law enforcement. Christians will be forced to make homosexual wedding cakes, forced to pay to fund government education teaching them against their beliefs etc etc.

“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions witch he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“Democratic power enjoyed a strangle hold on the people that is without precedence in the history of governmental systems. The suposidley free democratic people are given laws and taxed, without consultation, at the initiate of parties who site in their name. The democratic people are instructed in schools that the state controls, subsidizes, and regulates. They are informed by media the state owns or controls by means regulation, subsides, or groups of influence. They take medications the state authorizes, and they eat food the state stamps. The money they use is under the control of the state, which fixes its value and interest rate.”
-Christophe Buffin de Chosal The end of Democracy Tomblar House 2017

There is nothing that is safe in a democracy liberty does not exists. Anything can be taken once the majority is propagated into believing so- anything can be outlawed. If a majority in a society decided rape was legal, in a democracy this could happen. Even if laws or constitutions are in place to prevent politicians from regulating in a certain sphere, when centralized democracies allow only the central government to decide, they will find all kinds of ways around these shekels, just see the current U.S climate. And democracies will always seek to disarm its population to avoid resistance to its rule. Democracies ultimate end up totalitarian in nature even if they do allow us some rights and some freedoms to avoid resistance to their power. It is only because they currentley allow it, rather than it being God given liberty.

“Each triumph for " democracy " has ended, on the Continent, with a frightening set-back for the cause of liberty. The years 1917, 1918, 1922, 1933, 1938 were a chain of defeats for the cause of freedom. The Second World War resulted in military victory and political defeat.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Liberty or Equality the Challenge of our Time Caxton Printers LTD Galdwell Idaho 1952

They will keep expanding the centralized government to increase its number of employees and supporters who will have a “loose” understanding of say any Constitution. Take PBS, they are unconstitutionally supported by tax money. Would we imagine they will have a strict understanding of a Constitution or law that would limit a federal power? Of course not, to do so would bring about their own demise. G.K Chesterton describes a despotism as “a tired democracy” eventually it turns tyrannical. The later monarchies of the early 1900's [absolute monarchies] only 3% of employed workers worked for the crown, often not receiving a salary. After seeing the transition of society Donoso Cortes quoted by Leddihn said “Liberty is dead! She is not going to rise again, not on the third day, not in three years, perhaps not even in three centuries.” and in Equality or Liberty he says “It is evident that modern government has achieved an autonomy from society (we mean auto-nomy: the power to make and live by its own laws) which would baffle and frighten the medieval observer.” French historian Leon Gautier in his book Chivalry the Everyday Life of the medieval Knight wrote ““Our modern politicians claim the colossal license of Cesar and the superman... their [medieval] bondage came to more than our freedom.”

”liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.... the many-headed monster becomes more tyrannical, than the tyrant with a single head; numbers harden its conscience, and embolden it, in the perpetration of crime. And when this majority, in a free government, becomes a faction, or, in other words, represents certain classes and interests to the detriment of other classes, and interests, farewell to public liberty; the people must either become enslaved, or there must be a disruption of the government. ”
- Raphael Semmes Confederate Admiral 1868

“No sovereign ever lived in former ages so absolute or so powerful as to undertake to administer, by his own agency and without the assistance of intermediate powers, all the parts of a great empire; none ever attempted to subject all his subjects indiscriminately to strict uniformity of regulation, and personally to tutor and direct every member of the community….I think then, that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories...After having successfully taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned them at will the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the network of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided: men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting: such a power does not destroy but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize but it compresses, ennervates, extinguishes, and stupifies people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.
-Count de Tocqueville (Democracy in America, "Influence of democratic opinions and sentiments upon political society," Trans, by Henry Reeve, New York, 1899

“Everything is nowadays controlled. Once it was possible to mount a buggy and to drive in Europe over land as far as one wanted. To accomplish the same feat in peacetime by motorcar it is necessary to comply with driving tests, driving licenses, license numbers, motor vehicle inspections, compulsory third party risk insurances, speed limits, parking prohibitions, triptyques and custom declarations, passports, visas, money export permits, gasoline taxes, registration permits, etc.”
-Erik von Kuehnelt- Leddihn The Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large Bruce Publishing Company Milwaukee 1943