In rejecting kings the key to understand is this:

Do you understand the difference between a grasshopper and a locust? Google and do understand it.

Locusts can only have a better or a worse king. None is impossible. Grasshopper can have no kings.

In most of the world, but especially in the western (Europe centered) culture people are locusts, and have been such with no exceptions for more than 2000 years.

Of course, it is better to be a grasshopper, I think we are starting the journey in that direction, but it will still take quite some time. You could say the true true otcoiners are there already, but still in a very hostile environment. So only the exceptionally smartest and strongest can really feel and enjoy the ultimate independence. It is like North Korea is trully independent, but the very dependent somebody like Denmark or some rich island somewhere, probably still feels more independent while it actually is not.