From a certain point of view, rich people never have a problem with monarchy; they have a problem with hereditary monarchy. Throughout history, regicidal motherfuckers tend to show up when rich people can’t buy their way into more power than they were born into. It’s all really a game of thrones, if you will. And our founders were more Lannister than Stark: just a bunch of rich people rebelling against a “mad king,” who weren’t really interested in freeing anybody but themselves.
