To be honest I do believe that monarchy is fading. People want a say in all aspects of their government and that includes their Head of State.
When I first joined this board I was a monarchist but I am now a republican through and through - the sooner Australia becomes a republic the better as far as I am concerned.
What happens in other countries should be determined by the people in those countries and in most of them they don't want their monarchies back and those with monarchies are seeing calls for them abolition (softly in some and more loudly in others).
Monarchy is incompatible with the idea of an egalitarian society which is why most countries that are democracies don't want them back - particularly when they often had to have a violent period in their nation's history to get rid of them in the first place.
You know you're the only real republican I've ever spoken to that doesn't sound like he or she is just spewing out whatever comes to mind and that I respect.
Might I recommend you speak to a gentleman called the Mad Monarchist, you might enjoy having discussions with him and he might appreciate that you're mature and genuinely know what you're talking about.
-Frozen Royalist
P.S. Well truth be told I've been a monarchist since high school (which was about 7 or 8 years ago) and I genuinely don't see myself going back to the republican side anytime soon. I know you guys (republicans) try to mean well but most of the ones I have seen are pretty much arrogant airheads most of the time.
Look I get it, egalitarianism, equality, the right to choose a head of state and everything else that goes with it but the problem I have with it is I just don't see it as plausible considering we're talking about the human race here. Equality is impossible in my opinion, nobody is born equal, you're either going to be born into a super rich family with everything offered to you on a silver plate, born into a middle class family like me, or born into a family that is either dirt poor or lives in a war torn/broken nation like Syria, Iraq, North Korea and the list goes on. Honestly as long as there are rich families, as long as the concept of dynasty itself exists there will be the concept of royalty.
Humans worship other humans, its just human nature so you might as well worship a dynasty that has meaning to it unlike the Kardashians or the North Korean Kim Dynasty.
Another problem I just have is well this generation; the people I see on Twitter, Reddit and the other "hotspots" are just full of people who just think they know whats best, why is it that republics have to be the default system here? What because you can choose your leader? Even then it still doesn't seem like a fair system because when you get down to it only a select few, or couple if you're in America, can run for president and come out on top, and sometimes rather unfairly (I would have preferred if Bernie Sanders became president instead) . I get it democracy can be eroded or manipulated so the unpopular person gets the presidency but still. Don't patronize me about how "good" it is to have the power to vote because for me and my family things have been going to #$%@ because the rules and the drawings of the districts in my state, I mean republicans only get like 50% of the vote and they get 85% of the seats in the state government, really? I can be rather liberal at times but I'm just so angry at the concept of republicanism right now and I'm not sure that anger will ever dissapate.
You could talk about all the pluses and benefits of a presidential republic all you want but when I look at the Weimar Republic, the short lived Russian Democratic Federative Republic, every single regime in both Mexico and Brazil that existed before and after the monarchy, the Second Spanish Republic, Italy and every other former monarchy all I feel is that those countries essentially fell to an abyss and many many people suffered because of it. I know there have been tyrannical monarchs and many of them but when you compare Mao, Stalin, al-Assad, Hitler, Saddam, Castro and many other presidents who have caused from hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths, I can't help but feel like there is hypocrisy here.
I can respect and accept the existence of republicans but I have no intention of getting back on that ship in my lifetime.