User:Super Quantum immortal/Clone monarchy

(fix the formating latter)

Clone monarchy The status of monarchy in modern states has pretty much bottomed down. In political debates, you'll never hear of arguments in favor for monarchy. But but but, because of modern technological developments, she is getting a chance once more. Succession can be decided, neither by heredity(hereditary monarchy) neither by elections(elective monarchy), but by cloning the current monarch. And there's a plausible evolution path to this form of government from representative democracy.

The flaws in democracies, its the excessive anarchy that develops. A way to mitigate that was the use of representative democracy. Among all the representative democracy systems, ironically, the ones that get less direct democracy function beater. With "less direct democracy" i mean things like referendums of course, but also direct elections, recalls, single member constituencies, majoritarian systems, etc.

They are many forms of monarchy, i'm talking about constitutional monarchy, in which the monarch has real powers(not like in most modern monarchies) but not absolute powers. The greatest flaws of normal monarchy, its that if you get an incompetent monarch, you are stuck with him. In other words, succession kill it. Elective monarchies don't really solve much, here we fall back close to a republic.

A clone monarchy inherits the positives of classic monarchy with out its flaws. The competence of the monarch may vary from generation to generation, but over all it will be consistent. As a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, the positives of democracy are preserved with out its flaws. Very importantly, trust in politicians is around ... 20%, so i think a clone monarchy could beet that relatively easily.

Ok, lets assume, that a clone monarchy is desirable, how do we get in too one? We still must make a choice for the first monarch of the dynasty. Things can evolved gradually. We can also choose consciously to gradually introduce a clone monarchy. We should start with a separation of powers system, in which the government acts like a temporary monarch, or the president in any system. It must be a post with a clear separation from parliament, so that any power increase isn't overwhelming the system. At this point people have alredy started cloning them selves. The clones of people that have exhibited competence while at the post have of course an advantage in any elections. Over generations( centuries?) you tend to get the same dynasty of clones in the same post(s?). This will perceived as a waste, and a first change would be to permit an arbitrary number of re-elections to the post. Gradually re-elections become a formality, de facto establishing an elective monarchy. After some time the re-elections are dropped too, establishing a formal clone monarchy. The transition is exponential, at the beginning change is very slow, the bulk of the change happens at the end.

A particular note on Switzerland and the European Union. These are multinational unions, the level of mutual mistrust is greater then in normal federation. In Switzerland the ministers of the government are in theory up for re-election. But in practice, because they are all afraid that "foreign" candidates are nothing more than secret agents of a foreign country. Current ministers tend to be re-elected to there post until they retire, in the hope that they will preserve there independence. Minister post reeletions are formalities, de facto the Swiss government is an elective oligarchy. The EU as half arsed federation, is not at the Swiss level yet, but the anomaly exist and is named "the democratic deficit". As things are going, the Swiss scenario is a very probable one. With all this i want to say, that democracy or democratic deficit on there own don't guarantee what the real world results will be. Switzerland and the EU are not bad places to live in, actually they are among the best places in the word to live in. And also, the examples show that the proposed evolution is not as implausible as some might think.

Of course, there's no reason to restrict the clone dynasty to just the monarch. Lower levels of government, the civil service, the courts, can be populated by clones of the monarch. Courts are supposed to interpret the laws in a consistent manner, cloning pretty much secures a lot of consistency. Of course there's no need that clones are present every where, they are after all reasons that nature doesn't like clones. And those clones at lower levels don't need to be all of the same dynasty. The clones at lower levels possibility, give an alternative way to the initial evolution of the clone monarchy. Lower levels get populated first, upper levels get gradually filled up to the top over several generations. The transition following an exponential change, very slow at the beginning, and the bulk of the change happening at the end. Additionally the clones at lower level can be adequately groomed for there position, for example in a federation, they will actually grow up in the states they will have to administer.

What do i do? I think that i'll try this last option. And do a memory transplant( postulated feasibility) on one of them. Gradually build up acceptance and trust (reminder: trust in politicians is at 20%) over generations by filling lower levels with clones. Do this in many countries simultaneously, my clones would grow up as natives. In the relatively short term, the area of interest will be the EU. As an added plus, in the EU non-native EU citizens are eligible to local elections.