Malaysia is composed of 9 sub-national monarchies who’s monarchs take turn serving as the over-monarch of Malaysia for a 5 year term. The Pope is also an elected monarch.
His grandfather, Kim Il-sung, was actually the President of North Korea before he died. And also after he died for the rest of eternity.
Here’s a newsflash: there are no democratic nations in the world. Only oligarchies-- autocracies included.
If the people cannot choose their government, then they do not consent to it-- period; and any rationalization, such as the “Constitutional Republic” shell-game, is just an oligarchy with more steps, to deceive the ignorant.
This is not how the Founders and American People intended, however that’s how it’s been at least since Lincoln; so get used to it. You can’t say one oligarchy is good, and another evil; any regime to which the majority do not agree, is by definition unequal and therefore absolute.
Either go true democracy, or go home.
The founders who kept slavery legal, who established an Electoral College and appointed Senators rather than direct election, whose home states’ laws limited the franchise to white male christian literate property-owners?
Sure, they intended “real democracy”…
Interesting, so when the North Korean regime collapses they are going to have to posthumously depose him. Is there any precedent for that?
Were any dead Roman emperors posthumously undeified? (the standard MO was to deify them after their death)
I’m kind of baffled by it, myself. I took “president” to mean “presiding officer”, with no particular regard as to how he or she got that office.
Minor note - it also suggests a single absolute ruler. No doubt there are some family oligarchies out there who give the title and public visibility to one of their members when the previous title-holder dies, but the power is held by the family collectively rather than invested in that one person. The House of Saud comes to mind.
It’s called a null hypothesis, but you probably think that’s a Pokemon character.
Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t make it wrong… nor does your disagreement void it in law.
It was their train-set, you don’t have to like it in order for it to be what goes, just because it doesn’t jibe with your fictitious ideology where everything happens by magic.
Knock it off.
A bit of sarcasm is tolerated in this forum, but direct insults are not.
Your habit of declaring your opponent to be wrong based only of a claim for your unsupported definition of a word does not promote serious discussion, but moving beyond that to denigrating that poster’s understanding is a step over the line.
Stay civil.
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ok.
And a warning for talking back. You must learn to respect our rules.
Started in the 1930s but of course ended in the 40s. And the title was Führer.
German does not use rock dots over the letter “e”.
He actually started calling himself Führer in the 1920s, but it didn’t become an official state title until 1934 when he merged the Chancellorship (which he had since '33) and the Presidency into a single office after the incumbent, Paul von Hindenburg died.