{"id":15988,"date":"2018-01-10T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15988"},"modified":"2018-01-10T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:08:24","slug":"why-have-a-president-when-you-can-have-a-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2018\/why-have-a-president-when-you-can-have-a-monarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Have A President When You Can Have A Monarch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011018_1241_WhyHaveAPre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Wayne wrote about today&#8217;s monarchists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The International Monarchist League argues that countries should seriously consider a monarchy as an alternate form of government.<\/li>\n<li>Members of the League \u2013 sometimes the descendants of overthrown monarchs themselves \u2013 point out that statistically monarchies perform better than republics.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters of the ideas don&#8217;t want absolute monarchies. Instead they point to Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Japan, and the Netherlands as examples.<\/li>\n<li>They argue that monarchies provide stability, continuity, and unity. And contrast the chaos in American politics with Canada&#8217;s relative calm.<\/li>\n<li>Other examples abound. Even in the turbulent Middle East, the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan have fared much better than countries like Iraq and Iran.<\/li>\n<li>Monarchists gloss over the absence of basic freedoms in countries such as Brunei, Oman, Qatar, and Swaziland.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the more economically successful monarchies have been propped up by natural resources \u2013 especially oil. In a world more focused on renewables it&#8217;s unclear these political models are sustainable.<\/li>\n<li>And then there are all the examples of societies working very hard to fight off monarchies through revolutions \u2013 which are prone to repression and incompetence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/06\/world\/europe\/monarchy-us-advantage.html?partner=msft_msn\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Wayne wrote about today&#8217;s monarchists: The International Monarchist League argues that countries should seriously consider a monarchy as an alternate form of government. Members of the League \u2013 sometimes the descendants of overthrown monarchs themselves \u2013 point out that statistically monarchies perform better than republics. Supporters of the ideas don&#8217;t want absolute monarchies. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011018_1241_WhyHaveAPre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15991,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15988\/revisions\/15991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}