Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "the king" video.

  1. This may be so but some European and Scandinavian countries retain a monarchy - Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands - and are not noticeably less democratic and progressive than their neighbours. The Greek monarchy was abolished by a military junta. Several countries in SE Asia are monarchies - Japan, Thailand, Bhutan. The job of the king of Bhutan is to maintain religious tolerance and uphold the Constitution, so Musk wouldn't qualify. The argument by sociologists of religion is that having a President with executive power is all too likely to lead to an autocracy (as seems to have happened in the USA). A non-political head of state who cannot be removed by party politics deflects the aura of power that surrounds presidents, so Prime Ministers can never get the same combination of political and hero-worship as presidents, avoiding autocracy.
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  2. Or to put it another way, he opposes taking social housing off the market, which many consider a good thing.
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  3. Not many gold plated carriages in the Dark Ages. And have you ever seen a Trump motorcade? It's like the Russian May Day without the tanks and missiles.
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  4. Charles II was called out of exile to save the country from the Dutch pirates. He was pretty popular. I think you may be confusing him with Charles I who was forced out in a Civil War by the City of London, and James II and VII who lost the support of the Armed Forces through incompetence.
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  5.  @nioengland  You may be confused. Charles 2nd was not king when he went into exile during the Civil Wars. He was king from 1660 until 1685, when he died. On the Restoration, however, the start of his reign became officially the date of the death of his father.
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  6.  @birdinthebush  Bill Gates and Warren Buffett want a word.
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