PenPen wrote:
The best form of goverment is one that empowers itself while empowering its citizens. If it only focuses on its citizens, it will eventually not be strong enough to provide for them. If it only focuses on itself, the citizens will become incompetent and may even retaliate. The best strategy leans towards tit-for-tat.
Monarchry, the most primordial form of goverment, gives the power to the people who can best maintain this strategy, by nature and by nurture, with minimal influence from those who do not possess virtue. Furthermore, the monarch's direct legacy - his fame, property, and children - will be on the line, encouraging strong, yet stable leadership.
Monarchry keeps the good people in, liberalism keeps the bad people out.
How do you mean primordial? Since the oldest form of organization consists of informal bands that didn't have kings. Bands may have had a single leader (most likely an elder), but they'd be pragmatic about it and without title. Generally pretty egalitarian, since you can't put on airs when your whole society consists of a dozen or so people who are around you all the time.
Also, there are a lot of monarchs who proved unstable or incompetent, despite coming from good parents.
As for myself, I'm generally a liberal of some sort though I lean a bit more left than I used to.