What cured your love for democracy, /monarchy/? For me, and probably for many others, it was Democracy - The God that Failed. More specifically these:
>High time-preference of democratic regimes
A short mandate coupled with the fact that they don't own any state capital drives democratic leaders to be shortsighted and looking for instant gratification of their desires and those of the public. They have no reason to build up state resources, including the economy. Everyone has the most to gain by taking away from the national wealth and leaving his successor to deal with the ensuring problems. In a monarchy, on the other hand, it's not just that the monarch is life-long, he also knows his sons will inherit his realm. That lowers his time-preference. Unless it's an elective monarchy, of course.
>Incentive for the redistribution of property
Because that's what gives you the most votes. Heavily tied to the tragedy of the commons: Even though everyone would gain if redistribution was abolished (or at least cut to a minimum), everyone will instead try to take the largest piece he can get of the national wealth for himself. That's because the incentive for the individual to plunder is larger than the incentive to resist the plunder of others, as individual acts of plunder bring huge gains to those that profit but only a negligible loss to each individual victim. Think of the F-35 project. Lockheed Martin gained over a trillion dollars from it; that was no doubt spending millions to feed the right officials with. On the other hand, Of course, this is also an incentive to petition or bribe a monarch, but under a democracy, it's what selects the leader in the first place, and then he has no strong incentive to resist because his time-preference is high.
>Higher time-preference of the population
And that leads to what he calls "decivilization". The constant plunder in a democracy and the uncertainty about tomorrow's policies makes people despair when they try to plan for the long-term. So instead, they think in the short-term. When that becomes a habit, you have a society where old people don't plan trees they'll never sit on for their grandchildren.
>The historical achievements of democracy
Conscription, taxation up to fifty-percent, the welfare state, and the doctrine of total war were all democratic "achievements". On the other hand, the absolutist monarchies were rather nice places in comparison.
All quite technical, that's why I made these lengthy descriptions. That was my first antidemocracy-pill. Or rather, the first that really convinced me that democracy is a bad system of government. I'm an anarchist, but I used to see democracy as the next best thing.