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Agent23

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Never finished the whole thing, but the "Democratic" forces were a bunch of corrupt kleptocrats and
Reinhard wanted real change.
So I am with the Friedrich der Große of SPAACE!
 

Lord Sovereign

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Reinhard.

Yang had his high and mighty democratic morals but his inflexibility ultimately crippled him and caused the occupation of his country.

Reinhard meanwhile was an Emperor who brought the universe to heel, brought the Empire to heights it had never known, and ushered in an age of peace and good governance.
 

King Arts

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Never finished the whole thing, but the "Democratic" forces were a bunch of corrupt kleptocrats and
Reinhard wanted real change.
So I am with the Friedrich der Große of SPAACE!
Reinhard.

Yang had his high and mighty democratic morals but his inflexibility ultimately crippled him and caused the occupation of his country.

Reinhard meanwhile was an Emperor who brought the universe to heel, brought the Empire to heights it had never known, and ushered in an age of peace and good governance.
Ok maybe Reinhard himself will be a good emperor, but he is dying of a disease. And even if his tomboy secretary waifu will be a good empress and regent for his son. What about after? Reinhard still has left an autocratic system with no check on the emperor. What if his grandson is a rapist like the last goldenbaum dynasty emperor? As corrupt as the FPA was in some ways it was better than us. After all Job Trunict never publicly smelled little girls hair.
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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We have a monarchist thread elsewhere.

Democracy only works on a really small scale, like in a groups of a dozen people or so. Once you go larger than that it either turns into mob rule or it turns into oligarchies that hide behind a pretense of a democracy, unbeholden to no one. Democracy also turns neighbors against each other. A dictorship avoids these problems because there is no question who calls the shots.

Anyway, in the context of LoGH, Reinhard's empire was unquestionably preferable to the FPA. Yang was an idiot who threw away the lives of millions of people for a corrupt regime that had no hope of ever being reformed (Yang fought against the coup that tried to do so) and would have never lived up to his ideals.


Ok maybe Reinhard himself will be a good emperor, but he is dying of a disease. And even if his tomboy secretary waifu will be a good empress and regent for his son. What about after? Reinhard still has left an autocratic system with no check on the emperor. What if his grandson is a rapist like the last goldenbaum dynasty emperor? As corrupt as the FPA was in some ways it was better than us. After all Job Trunict never publicly smelled little girls hair.

Didn't Reinhard make Mittermeyer regent, and tell him that if his son wasn't shaping up to be a good emperor then Mittermeyer was under no obligation to make him emperor and could reorganize the government? That's the best option Reinhard could have made: place control of the empire into someone he trusts and hope that the empire (in whatever form it takes) remains good for as long as possible.
 

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