Sub-National Monarchies are really common outside the Western world, especially in Africa. Many pre-colonial Kingdoms still exist, have borders and monarchs and subjects, they just aren't sovereign nations. The Sokoto Caliphate is a big example.
Drewfro66
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Elon Musk runs the whole of Twitter like the jealous, power-drunk moderator of a small 5,000-member Discord server.
Unitary Representative Parliament.
Ultimately, Democracy is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. And as we can see in the United States, people do not tend to vote wholly in their own collective interest but according to media (and even educational) influence and voter manipulation (making voting easier for certain people and harder or impossible for others).
Ultimately I believe in the inverse-heirarchical system: where people elect local representatives (for their town, or a neighborhood of a large city), who elect state representatives, who elect national representatives, who appoint a dual head of State and Government along with an executive committee to carry out the mandates of the national body.
I believe that parties whose purpose is counter to the public good should be banned. My main concern here is not for "anti-democratic" parties, however, but fascists and other right-wing groups.