[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I don't know if people want a monarchy as much as they are OK with anything that allows their side to win. A consequence of the hyperpartisanship of the last few decades. You have people on the right worshipping a man who cheated on his wife with a pornstar, has a left-wing protectionist view of the economy, wants stricter government control of private enterprise, and called to nationalize a social media company. These would have been ideas too far to the left of even most Democrats.

And then liberals who threw away decades of institutions they build up (anti-war movement, media, minority support) so they could prop up a dementia-riddled moron so that he could provide unlimited weapons to the most far-right government in the world to commit genocide. Imagine explaining that to a liberal in 2006.

So we're just left with people invested in politics where nothing matters to them besides their team winning. Your leader can switch a long standing view of the party overnight and it's fine. You can run on the same policies as your opponent that you trashed just a few years earlier. Your supporters showed they really don't care about any of that.

Not sure what changes that outside of some kind of other outlet to express their tribalistic urges.

I hear what you are saying but this is why I say the desire for a monarch encompasses more than just politics from what I can tell. Does everyone want to win? Sure. I am saying that many would prefer not even running the risk of having a competition. In theory, it should be nice to have your party in control of the White House, super-majorities in both The House and The Senate and have a 9-0 control of the Supreme Court. Nothing in that scenario compares to having the monarch making a royal decree and having that be law of the land on the spot. The monarch is the political ruler. The monarch is the moral authority. The monarch is the everything especially if you see the monarch as having a divine right to power. The monarch decides everything political and otherwise.