We need democracy renovation and renewed seriousness about our lives as citizens. This means reconnecting to our civic power, experience and responsibility. This requires civic practice and education.
And that's where they started to derail us... degrading education to the point where civics, geography, Am History, World History, and Government was barely taught... if at all. And none of the teaching methods tied it to current events, in an attempt to train critical thinkers. Magats want a monarchy because they can't handle "choices" of any kind. Ask them if they want Coke, Pepsi, or Water and they *might* say 7-Up. Women shouldn't be given any choices in their lives at all, because their lives exist only to "helpmate" the husband and pop out as many kids as possible as cog fodder.
This guy is wrong when he states that most of human history is bound up in a hierarchy of races, lived under absolute monarchy. That's true for most of the dark ages on, but he forgets Greece. Go back even further to the Middle East before the Monotheistic religions, and you'll find some resource wars but generally you find cooperation among tribes... not competition. Of course, back then resources were plenty because we didn't have 6 billion people living on Mother Earth. And you also had Goddess centered religions, which emphasized the matriarchy and cooperative and nurturing aspects of it. Not to say there weren't warlike females. But for wholescale religion and resource wars to take hold, it took Marduk taking over the middle east. From that point on, women were pushed away from public life and relegated to second class citizenry. I daresay even some slaves were held in higher regard than women.
In old Ireland (I'm talking Pagan Ireland), romans were surprised at how much power women held in society. They could own land, cattle and they were part of the governing councils, etc. Amazingly, all that slipped away once St Patrick drove out the snakes.
To me, it all boils down to what kind of world do you want to live in? One where people are civil and get along with each other, or one where every aspect of life is dog-eat-dog? For me, it's the former. For this guy, it's the latter (no doubt because he is part of the privileged class).
This guy does what a lot of men do -- mansplain in a way that bolsters his argument and circumvents any disagreements. He's not a critical thinker. He just wants you to think he is!
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