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Anti-Republicanism?
Topic Started: Apr 9 2010, 09:21 PM (150 Views)
Aelius
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I've been noticing that a lot of monarchist nations have a hostile view of republics/democracies. Is there some sort of ideology behind it, or is this just representative of many monarchs' distaste for rule by the people?
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NRE
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Well I know for Russia, anti-Republicanism is relatively new when it comes to being an ideology of the Tsar. That being said, since the restoration of the Russian monarchy and the Empire there has been a certain level of anti-republicanism with the people that I haven't really played up but have always felt was there. This stems back to their hatred for the Communist years of Russia which though more a dictatorship than a Democracy, could still return if a democracy were to rise in Russia today.

Plus, everyone needs a enemy so for Russia, its republicans. Of course I've tried to even it out with having the Confederacy a strongly anti-monarchist country.
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Aelius
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Haha, well, I was referring to Russia to a point, but also to Britain, Rome, and many of the other old powers in the game.
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Porcu
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I've been noticing that a lot of monarchist nations have a hostile view of republics/democracies. Is there some sort of ideology behind it, or is this just representative of many monarchs' distaste for rule by the people?
It's time you learned to just deal with it, young grasshopper. :lol:
Edited by Porcu, Apr 9 2010, 10:31 PM.
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Aelius
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I have no issue with it, it's just a matter of curiosity. :P
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Toussaint
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A lot of it, at least in recent times, related to Çerdoné.

Çerdoné was a nation that I'd formed in Scandinavia. It aligned with the nation of Andorra. Both were fairly powerful Republican nations, which were very radical and extreme. They formed an alliance known as the Madrid Pact and sought to establish democratic governments in other nations, and prevent the rise of monarchies, fascists, and communists, all of which were represented in the Treaty of Konigsburg.

Eventually, a showdown broke out between the two alliances, which proved to be a bloody war that ended in Republican defeat and the destruction of the Madrid Pact. A lot of bitter feeling about the conflict existed for quite some time after that. I believe it is still somewhat relevant to today's world.
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Kasnyia
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The Dominion, with the distinct exception of the Eastern Empire and Scythirus (and even then, in the case of the latter, Gassel eventually had the monarchy deposed), was vehemenantly pro-republic (albeit a military ruled one), but also very anti-monarchy, though the latter was less the Dominion's official ideology than it was Gassel's personal conviction. Not that there was much seperating the two.

As such, with a lot of these stories taking place in the post-Dominion world, the backlash against the Dominion has added with it a hatred for republics (among monarchies).
Edited by Kasnyia, Apr 10 2010, 02:43 AM.
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Rhadamanthus
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Republics = Cerdone, Dominion, etc.

The empire accepts republics as long as they are peaceful and do not interfere in the affairs of nations. But if republicanism is advanced as a principle, it leads to chaos and immorality, and contradicts the imperial, liturgical, state, which is ordained by Lord Jesus Christ.
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New Harumf
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Democratic revolutions kill kings.
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Menhad
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Apr 10 2010, 09:04 AM
Democratic revolutions kill kings.
Yeah, the Monarchs fear Republicanism spreading because it might mean their head.

The TO is a different case, it is made up of nobility but all the positions are democratically elected(Including the Hochmeister, although that is a position for life)
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Kasnyia
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Not so much in Kasnyia, where the monarchy is revered. Bloody militarist/nationalist coups kill kings there....
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