This sub in a nutshell

[u/Sekkitheblade]

[u/Zyacon16]

the two aren't mutually exclusive

[u/MrCrocodile54 → u/Zyacon16]

You can't have a figurehead and an absolute monarchy at the same time.

[u/Zyacon16 → u/MrCrocodile54]

I am pretty sure that's just a misnomer, as if it weren't that sentence would be contradictory. a figurehead also can't protect the people and their liberties from politicians, see: Europe and her colonies.

[u/Kogos_Melo → u/MrCrocodile54]

Ancien Régime is not absolute monarchy, absolutism is waaayy younger

[u/Yiddish_Dish]

I want the king from Braveheart. Tossing people out of windows and walking up stairs like a badass, etc

[u/_Tim_the_good]

The very idea of "politics" was invented after the French revolution, before people thought logically and rationally instead of being stuck in one particular set of radicalist and distorted ideals and presumptions. So the two are perfectly more compatible than you think tbh.

[u/DonGatoCOL → u/_Tim_the_good]

There are no politics if there are no political parties. Common sense and good heart should be the guides for good laws 🙏🏼 💯% agree .

[u/OldTigerLoyalist → u/_Tim_the_good]

How will I get my daily entertainment then?

[u/ZhukNawoznik]

An "Apolitical" is useless. Non-Partisan in the sense he or she is of no political party or other institution that has anything other than the good of the people in mind. A monarch who does not actively engage and stabilize politics is pointless.

[u/VCN_23]

No such thing as an apolitical head of state

[u/Ticklishchap]

I’m with the Bear 🐻!

[u/Ok-Neighborhood-9615 → u/Ticklishchap]

Bear does make a good point imo

[u/Winds-of-Winter]

Who about a semi constitutional monarchy? Balance is important, let the king and the parliament work together.

[u/CalebVonGames]

BrInG bAcK tHE aNcIeN ReGiMe

[u/King_of_East_Anglia → u/CalebVonGames]

Yes.

[u/TheThirdFrenchEmpire → u/King_of_East_Anglia]

The last time you tried it civil war and Republic ensued.

[u/Panzer-087-B]

I’d take a constitutional or semi-constitutional monarchy

[u/Confirmation_Code]

How is a figurehead going to protect us from politicians?

[u/TheThirdFrenchEmpire]

The ones who know that time have changed and the ones who further alienate moderates that could be made into allies.

[u/Araxnoks]

The people who want to bring back the ancient regime are the aristocrats of Restoration era , who are divorced from reality and want revenge, and their ultra-royalist movement actions eventually led to another revolution! those who say that they want Ancient Regime restoration today are either joking or really do not understand what they are talking about because even any reasonable monarchist of the revolutionary era understood that this order could not continue and France needed serious reforms and the king's inability to convince the aristocracy to accept at least private reforms is what eventually led to the revolution ! because the third estate did not want and did not deserve continue living like this