Republics can be okay, and usually they have a really great first hundred years or so; but they subsequently decline and die, predictably lasting about 250 years. If there was some solid system for a smooth transition of power from one into the next, it’d be great, but it hasn’t ever worked out because any coherent republic can’t plan for its own demise ... that would be admitting weakness, which would result in the ascent of a rival faction, pushing bolstered jingo-sloganeering with a coherent central message.
And anyway, regardless, the scope and span of history leaves me with the impression that there isn’t really a choice whether a republic or an autocrat emerges; it’s rather a function of the relative strengths of the Chiefs of Clans, vs. the One Who Rules Them All, and I suspect God and God Alone makes that call.
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