'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
It is just as easy to do so if your policies are based on the collective will of masses of generally foolish people.
It is based on reality as it currently exists. There are forms of government that would last longer and perform better than a republic, but it would do better than your Egyptian government.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
We're a democratic republic, which uses elements of both democracy and republicanism. There's no good reason in the case of the presidency why we shouldn't elect the highest individual representative of the people of the United States directly instead of through some bizarre convoluted state intermediary that just serves to pervert the whole process.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Because the position of being the single most powerful human being on the planet should not be a popularity contest among masses of generally foolish people.
You actually have no idea. Being a megalomaniac really is one of the best things ever. I would love to know how you imagine a sun worshiping (much of the time) based theocracy would last longer in the modern world ruling over a nation such as the US last longer and doing a better job than a republic.
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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
Holy fuck, I'm sick of people stating this as if they're revealing some deep secret that shows their knowledge of civics. When people use the term "democracy" in general parlance, no one's talking about a formal direct democracy, they're simply referring to a nation where elections are held to determine who the leaders are. This is well known by just about everyone, you're not pointing out anything of any value to any conversation.
"Laws should be made of iron, not of pudding."
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
- King Stannis Baratheon
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
If you want to call all the various Egyptian governments one single unified government, you would be both correct in your assertion that that lasted a very long time and uneducated. Egypt had a great many changes in what the nation (or nations in some cases) constituted and how it was ruled/who ruled it that you cannot call it one government. It would be like saying England (being the United Kingdom now) has had the same government since 1066 when it has switched hands in war and changed various times throughout history since then.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8
And if you actually cared and took 2 minutes to check my post history, you would know the answer to that.
The acquisition of one very small piece of land does not equate with the splitting of a nation into upper and lower Egyptian nations or being conquered and having the theology that was the bases of the nations rule replaced. Maybe had we thrown out the Constitutions in 1959 and started a whole new government your comment would be accurate, but instead we continued the government that had been established as before.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Revelation 6:8