You are not the first - Sophocoles wrote Oedipus the King in 429 b.c.
And European royalty is an excellent example. There is even a theory that asks if they operated at a diminished mental capacity for all the incest.
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. " - Theodore Roosevelt
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