Can We Finally Go Back to Having Kings?

I am as happy as the next red-blooded male that Donald Trump is back in the White House. Although I am an outsider, I have watched with joy as the Donald has signed a zillion Executive Orders that are dismantling the Woke Industrial Complex in real time. I must admit that, as a northern neighbor, I am not thrilled about the tariff threats, and I hope they don’t raise our prices up here too much. Of course, Trudeau and his cronies, in what little time they have left, could simply secure the border; but they are idiots, so they won’t do that and instead will threaten to go tit for tat with the largest economy in the world.

In any event, while watching Trump enact or dismantle various laws with executive fiat, I can’t help but chuckle. I laugh because the prevailing and foundational narrative in both the United States and abroad is that our societies are animated by a love for “democracy” and the “will of the people.” We are “free men!” we are told, who are not governed by tyrants and despots like our ancestors. Through blood, sweat, and tears, and with the indomitable human spirit, we can claim our birthright, which is liberty for all men, regardless of race, religion, or origin. 

Due to this liberty, we, through our democratically elected leaders, are “self-governed,” and we demonstrate this self-governance by telling someone else to govern us or by trying to remove people from office who are governing us because we don’t like how they are doing it. In a democracy, if we don’t like who is governing us, we remind ourselves that we live in a society where we do, in fact, govern ourselves by way of democracy, and the glory of democracy is that sometimes we get what we want and sometimes we don’t get what we want—but, because it is democratic, it is still somehow what we want because it is the will of the people. Well, it is the will of some people, whom we don’t like and who don’t like us because their will doesn’t represent our will—but we are self-governed.

Another great thing about democracy is that we get to change the will of the people every few years. In one era, the will of the people is that the government should allow us to govern ourselves based on ideas that represent our will in that era. Then, with the magic of democracy, we can change our minds and ask the government to self-govern us in a different way.

And what is so great about democracy is that we know it is superior to the undemocratic monarchies of the past, which were way worse than our beautiful systems.

For example, we know that the kings of old were really just unelected tyrants who didn’t earn their positions but instead gained them through nepotism. Luckily, that never happens anymore. 

We also know that the kings of old were greedy, which is why they taxed the people and spent money they didn’t earn on things that the people didn’t ask for. Again, we are fortunate this doesn’t happen anymore.

One of the worst things that happened under monarchies, we are told, were things like petty religious wars, which is something that we never fight over in a democracy, let alone appeal to in support of war. Well, that is, except for a decades-long military campaign in the Middle East dealing with Muslims and Jews who can’t get along because of religion.

In addition, we know that it is democracy and not monarchy that is the will of God because God demonstrates through the Scriptures, history, and the Kingship of Christ that what He really wants us to do is govern in a way that does not reflect the fact that Heaven is a monarchy with a King and a Queen.

President Trump is simply another example of the power of democracy in action. In true democratic fashion, he won in 2016, and half the nation had a mental breakdown over the prospect of being self-governed by someone they believed was Satan incarnate. Then, in 2020, he got way more votes than in 2016; but luckily for Joe Biden, a significant number of dead people voted to help him win and hoards of votes came from states without identification requirements.

Then, in 2024, they tried to kill Trump because—by running for president in a democratic society—he was a threat to democracy; and he won again. His first order of business? Use the executive power to enact laws and dismantle laws without putting the laws up for debate or a vote, thereby demonstrating the democratic self-governing spirit of the age.

Of course, I speak in jest here, and I have literally zero problems with Trump’s use of executive power. I don’t have a problem with it because I think democracy stinks, and I think monarchy rules—pun intended.

Am I the only one who is tired of a never-ending Hegelian dialectic between thesis and antithesis in Congress or Parliament? Is it not exhausting that every few years we face an existential threat that threatens to bring down the system that ensures we face existential threats every few years?

Can we all just admit, once and for all, that what we really want is for our guy to reign forever and give us what we want and then appoint a successor who will continue giving us what we want?

Democracy has been in vogue for about 150-200 years on a global scale. During that time, we have seen, and continue to see, the greatest wars the human race has ever seen and continual degradation in public morals and intelligence. And, to top it all off, we can keep looking over our shoulders for the next democratically elected extension of our self-governing selves who will lock us all in our houses and shut down our businesses because it is the will of Big Pharma.

Virtually all of our politicians are bought and paid for; the vast majority are tone-deaf and incompetent. But we still have to pretend that this supposedly democratic system is better than the alternative.

Quite frankly, I want Trump to be crowned as king, and I don’t care who knows it. I don’t want him to be king because I think he is perfect; I want him to be crowned so we can stop pretending that he isn’t a king while he governs like one for four years.

If I never have to live through another election season, it will be too soon.

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