Thanks— here’s hoping!

Oooh this is what I was hoping to hear. Walk through the math real quick?

Contrast is even more bizarre when you realize many actual monarchies (e.g. in Western Europe) are in practice significantly more democratic than ye olde Land of the Free.

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Yeah he’s talking about brahminical traditions in the South, so perhaps less ‘hidden’ in a general sense than inaccessible to a 17th century Dutch missionary.