“Everything has failed every time it’s been tried. We have not thus far created a society that would inspire a sane person to say, ‘yep, that’s good enough.’” – Me
“True imperial monarchy has never been tried.” – Also Me
Point being: I’d take it as a kindness if, in parsing my weird irritable political mutterings, you didn’t just pattern-match to the most obvious historical analogue. It seems likely that I am talking about something pretty different.