" you don't need to tell me what to do. yes, people have beliefs, and its only natural to be surprised- political science students or not, i cannot supress my surprise, its a different thing i don't have to express it. and i've tried to keep emotions and personal biases out of discussion as much as possible. and indeed, when i say i am surprised that nepali elites keep hope that king's take-over will better the economic condition, i'm not surprised at their political belief and faith that the king will do good, " Well, I felt I had a need to tell you given the condescending tone of your earlier post. Glad to know that you knew it all along. I accept my mistake. "but i'm surprised that they replace political system with economic system completely. nowhere during my arguments have i mentioned that democracy will bring economic development, i am only advocating for a fair political system, while the king's supporters directly relate his system to economy. and i'm not directing this individually at you, it has become a collective hope, and i think in democracies i'm allowed to express my disagreement :) and i've put my argument regarding why monarchy cannot do anything about it, in my first post, that u haven't counter-argued. " Without a functioning economy, you cannot have a functioning democracy.. equality fairness and all that, and this is my argument. If we have democarcy for the democarcy's sake, without any economic developmnet, what do we get? The Maoist problem, which unlike many people, I see as an "economic" conflict rather than political. You are right about the hope part. I mean what can be done now except to hope for a better Nepal under the "visionary leadership of the King". I have said this time and again, and I'll say it again, maybe he will be our Lee or Deng and make things better, economically, in Nepal. This is my hope, and I am confident, with political stability, we'll soon see economic development, or at least the early signs of it. You have your reasons to believe otherwise, and that's good.. (it let's us discuss more on the issue :-)