In one sense, both Shia and Sunni follow similar paths , except one has the king as the front man, and the other has the religious leader as the front man .
The king has his religious council behind him
And the ayatollah has the administrative body behind him …

The Vedic view is that the king is better suited , he is a  man of the people more in touch with living a  family type life . The religious leader is more renounced.

In the  government systems of the West, the religious leaders are way down the line of authority and are sometimes officially ” listened to “but mostly ignored.

In regards to successions, the Vedic emphasis is in the purity and quality of a person , it could be generational leadership or it might not be , so kings and religious leaders must be in place predominantly by quality.

The West throws out everything , including  quality,  and not only has it degraded the importance of the church leaders, but also it has brought about uneducated democracies where fools vote in fools, because they don’t know what or who a good leader is …

More on this soon
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