Beats me, Norton. I mean, the Trauma suffered in France with the whole Reign of Terror ending with the reinstating of a Bourbon Monarch and the evolution of Hobbesian ideals is kind of a hard progression to fight against.
I suppose the question is how to make Democracy workable as a form of government--the United States had of course boldly pronounced such ideals, but it turned into a dictatorship under Aaron Burr and collapsed into a pile of warlord states, some of which appointed kings of their own right.
I think the world needs a paradigm shift. Some speak of Human Rights--but this is clearly a myth. The Negros are a lesser race, they pick cotton and this is what makes them happy. The Best People are those chosen by god to live the best way. I mean, this is God's plan for humanity--women stay at home raising infants, whites rule, blacks, browns and yellows work, and children work in the fields and the factories.
It seems a rather odd question to ask. But I'd have to know: Do you really think that all men are created equal? That's an idea that's been proven false time after time. For "Democracy" to work, you'd need a revolutionary state that would meaningfully survive to propose such ideas--but that is not god's will. The United States failed, the French Revolution Failed, and the Polish Constitutionals succeeded in bringing better governance for their people--Russia, Prussia and Austria.
The question that faces us today is how much more power a King or Noble should have over his people. Some, like the Czar of Russia, claim the power of life and death over their people, while England is likely simply to send the miscreants off to Australia to raise sheep. There may be a limit to how much power a king should wield, as the overthrow of Istvan of Hungary should make clear--then again, that was a man who was probably forcing himself on peasant women and killing their husbands.
I think the question is what would have happened if Locke had been correct instead of Hobbes--what if people were better off making their own rules instead of having the best rule with unlimited power? We are slowly learning that this power perhaps should NOT be unlimited, but it is a difficult state of affairs. I for one can't imagine a world where women aren't in the kitchen or in the laundry room, or one where anyone except a noble European runs the factory or the government. It's ours to rule.