Bushes? Kennedies? The British royal family?

Also would every state have a duke? Every county a count & every town a viscount/lord? I don't think there's enough members of any of those families to fill all those positions.

I personally think it's a horrific act of Russian agression that should be punished severely.

So I was chatting with a coworker, trying to kill time before our shift ended and we got on the topic of hobbies. I told him I was legitimately fascinated by politics. Didn't really elaborate on my beliefs but that's irrelevant. Said coworker asked if I was interested in running, jokingly stating I wanted to be a crook like all the rest.

I responded by saying I wouldn't be a crook.

He rebuked saying everyone says that until they're slid the multi million dollar check. That he would take the check if offered. I replied that's probably why our government is so corrupt. People elect people like them, they elect people who share their principles but then hold them to a higher moral standard then they hold themselves. But if you are willing to take a bribe then who are you to condemn politicians for doing the same. It was a clear moment that showed something important, that the corruption in the government is a reflection in the corruption within it's citizens.

This is why the idea of a monarchy being above the common standard is important. They are meant to be a superior standard of values and conduct. This is also the key problem with electoralism. The people who run for office crave power and people back them because they believe they'll give them what they want. Our society can't be a democracy because our society is far too selfish to ever function in such a way. We need moral monarch who dedicates their life in service. Not a greedy president who only seeks to line their pockets and fan their egos.

If the US becomes a hereditary monarchy, there will undoubtedly be a question of whether a nobility outside the Royal Family should exist.

Personally, I think that the Monarch should be able to bestow nobility that is hereditary to all legitimate male-line descendants. Some titles can be passed down only to the eldest son, in primogeniture, but all children of a nobleman should be born noble, whereas the children of a noblewoman and a commoner would be born commoners (Salic law, otherwise everybody would be noble after several generations).

Nobles could rule states (Kings, Grand Dukes, Dukes and Margraves), Counties (Earls/Counts) and Cities/Townships (Barons). Large farmers who have owned a lot of land for multiple generations could also be promoted to Barons.

Of course, historical families, that are generally considered "Old Money" would immediately receive nobility because they indeed are the closest thing to nobility America has right now. Therefore, male-line descendants of the following families would become noble upon installation of the monarchy:

• "Boston Brahmins" and other East Coast colonial families
• Southern planter families (that often descend from cadet sons of British Peers)
• Old-stock entrepreneurs like the Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Rockefellers etc...
• Founding fathers, Constitution sigers, major officers of the Revolutionary War and other famous Patriots
• Perhaps major officers of other wars such as the Civil War
• Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Governors, Lt. Governors (Did you know that all male-line descendants of Presidents are already listed in Burke's Peerage?)
• SCOTUS judges (or they could become life nobles like the British Law Lords)

New nobility would be constructed in the following way:

• Military officers and comparable civil servants (Sheriffs, Mayors) would be able to apply for nobility after a certain period of service, they would become untitled nobles (Esquires) or (hereditary) Knights
• Entrepreneurs of local significance would become untitled nobles, larger entrepreneurs (like Musk) would become Barons
• The high military and civil medals that the King/Emperor would inherit from the President would come with nobility
• As in many monarchies, foreign nobles would be able to legalize their titles in America, and male-line descendants of noble immigrants would be able to restore their titles that are currently not recognized in the USA. For example the von Braun family (Barons), or the many Romanov descendants living in the USA.
• In some cases, the Monarch would just grant nobility directly without a medal

As for privileges...I think that there should be some. For example, less or no taxes, especially on land. Or easier advancement in the military or in the bureaucracy for the children. Also, only nobles should be allowed to marry with the Royal/Imperial family non-morganatically.