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I wouldn't say so much idealized as rather specific. From what I know of England, their monarchs were often cartoonishly evil, hence the focus on parliament etc. - although one has to be careful of that because it is easy to villify people you don't like when you control what is being written...

I will just note here that monarchism is not necessarily opposed to libertarianism, although I frankly see some of libertarean ideas as a mistake. In fact, libertarianism may be easier to achieve under a monarchy than a republic. As for backfire...? No matter what we do, it will eventually...

Quite the opposite, actually. Generally, monarchs showed a lot of concern for their subjects - far more than modern-day political and plutocratic elites do. Sure, monarchies did go to a war a lot during the Middle Ages - but so did democracies and republics. Roman Republic was far more...

One word: Hollywood. Media are political, you cannot get around that. Hollywood, McDonalds, NATO etc. - the reason why Europeans debate American politics much more than the other way around is because America has much more influence in Europe than the reverse. What happens in America matters in...

Except one of main issues of modern politics is precisely that democratic focus on equality, which gives the Left all the ammunition it needs. Modern politics are very much evil against evil. Democracy is one of major reasons why the Left is winning.

You mean like Americans have no place in debates about European politics? Fact is, Left is targeting everybody not Left, everywhere.

I was talking about the social change. You were talking about Romans, and for them technology didn't change much in 200 years. Although, considering how technological progress has engendered globalization, I wonder whether it may really be a damnation in disguise.

Problem is that change is usually for the worse. Seems to be the human nature...

Yes. I mean, I know it is ancient history for Americans, but 1790s were basically yesterday. Although the so-called "Right" in the US and Western Europe seems to be making big strides towards reaching the positions of 1970s Left.

Modern Right, including American one, is little more than warmed-over old Left.