Hence United States . <| sep |> democracies is that they are significantly more stable . I would argue democracies are inherently unstable , and prone to self destructive tendencies . Essentially every important country that has succumbed to democratic republicanism has turned itself into a quasi dictatorship nightmare . It ' s not always the whole country in the US it was the civil war . But France , Russia , Germany , China , Iran , Spain and more all have a history of basically going from something quite democratic to something else . The US , as we have seen , also manages to shut itself down because democracy combined with a bad system necessarily creates lack of capacity to even minimally govern . Stability is good for both the economy and the people , and , barring external forces , should lead to better sustainabilitythe end goal of nationhood . That ' s more monarchy than democracy . Monarchy has a 1000 year history of functionally balancing short and long term goals . Arguably the best of both worlds is constitutional monarchy , where the public get what they want by using the collective bargaining power of government , and if the public suddenly decide they can ' t agree on the colour of an orange there ' s an adult in the room to at least keep everything from going to hell .