Monarchy
Perhaps we’d be better off with a King or a Queen. As Abbey said, we shouldn’t “…entrust the management of our lives to “kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” Just drop the King part.
Why?
After years of living in the The Bible Belt, where The Good Book apparently rules all, I’m convinced there are millions of people too ignorant to rule themselves. They definitely need a standing government with precise parameters, and you couldn’t possibly leave it up to them to craft their own rules.
In the South, if the natives were permitted to run things as they wished, we’d have theocracy and ecocide.
A Congress? A representative body of the people? Well, we can see how well that’s worked out in Washington, can’t we? But with a monarch, you only have one idiot to deal with, not hundreds, and if you had a good one, well, things might be real cheery.
I therefore nominate myself for King. Bow down, subjects!
We don’t have a representative body of the people. We have a representative body of the corporations.
We already had the idiot pretender to the King. It didn’t work.