i'm irish. so from my perspective, being ruled by a foreign monarch is fucking terrible. they never respected us. and now they don't respect you, if they ever really did. it just so happened that their interests were in part bound with yours, and you shared the same culture i can see your perspective however. hierarchy is the most natural form of governance. but it must be held accountable and put in check from below as the people are from the top. otherwise, you get what you currently have, or what the french monarchs became. this might be just my bias, but the irish system was better. the rulers are nothing without the people who put them there, and so they should respect the common folk. and the people should chose their best to rule. how that is done, that is the real issue. it used to be that it was ultimately decided by violence primarily, and so they'd be tempered and tested in war and leadership, and so they would have the right to rule. of course, they then had their successors, but it was ultimately violence that kept them there. i'm not so sure if that is a good idea for the modern age because our weapons are so destructive. then you have another method. democracy. and i think by now we all see the flaws with democracy what do you do? i don't know on a separate note, i have noble blood in me apparently. from british nobles. about 10 percent, maybe more. i'm not sure how to feel about this being that i'm 80 something percent irish
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