Human nature, and right and wrong do not change.

And I recognized that and acknowledged it. But whether or not their power is real or a bluff, it is still wrong.

Like when they forced her mother to stop defending her own subjects?

Right. So the hell with the Tower, or any group that would do such a thing.
Yeah, so. I am not criticizing Elayne for doing something that will bring the Tower's wrath down on her. I fully approve of her doings with the Kin, and also expect it to be a kind of metaphorical Frankenstein's monster that will slip the limits originally envisioned for it.

He didn't need anything else. There was no one else remotely concerned with his legitimacy, so the only threat she is protecting him from is one she herself creates. You are the one who is misapplying real world practices. The moral right of people to self-government is a natural constant. The people chose Perrin as their leader and thus he has the moral right. It has nothing to do with democracy or elections, which are just a method of codifying that natural right. These things are true and valid for the same reason that the Seanchan are wrong to keep slaves or that rapists and murderers and thieves are just as wrong in WoT as they are in the real world. This is not about a particular system of government, but about the morals of power. Elayne has no more right or organize or authorize anything to do with the Two Rivers than Rand had to give her the Lion Throne. And her doing the former after insisting on the negation of the latter makes her a hypocrite.

Because of all the foreign invasions the Two Rivers had to fear? Their only other neighboring nation is ruled by Perrin's vassal, who escaped the worst experience of her life thanks to Two Rivers bowmen fighting a distraction to enable her rescue (and impressing officers of the finest military in the world). As for the fate of anyone who tried invading the Two Rivers, look up the battles of Agincourt or Crecy sometime. Before gunpowder, the long bow was the most deadly military weapon in the world and according to the books, the material for those bows only grows in the Two Rivers.

Which is the only reason I gave the whole matter as little attention as I did. The deal that was arranged was not wrong or bad, what I had a problem with was her hypocritically claiming the same prerogative for the Two Rivers that she denied Rand for Andor, despite his doing far more to deserve it for Andor than she ever did anything for the Two Rivers.

Forget all this yammering about trade, because Andor AND Cairhien were doing just fine with trade without any of her switching up Houses, and it has not yet been proven that Andor will benefit from Sea Folk trade or that they needed the enclave to get that benefit. Elayne is already planning to tax anything that leaves the enclave, which will retard trade. You need some specifics about how trade is going to help. Even if I stipulate that her deals with the Sea Folk and the worst nobles were necessary to prevent the scenario you offer of Cairhien going bankrupt, than her duty as the monarch of Andor is to NOT go grabbing another throne and crown, which will divert her attention from Andor AND run the risk of dragging the country to which she owes her first duty into ruin. So thanks. All you have done is give me another grievance to lay at her feet if your analysis of the situation in Cairhien is correct.

IN CAIRHIEN, NOT ANDOR, WHERE ELAYNE HAS TO GET THE LAND FROM?? And even if she finds an uninhabited parcel to pass along, everything I said about diverting trade from her supporters in Aringail still holds true.

No, I don't remember that, because IT NEVER HAPPENED. By the river, they were in ONE OF THE LARGEST TOWNS IN ANDOR. And they traveled the entire way along a ROAD through populated areas, only sleeping under hedges because they could not afford inns. Once they realized they could perform for their supper, they stayed in inns and farmhouses all the time.

Prove it.

I was talking about technology, not channeling! Pull your head out of the Aes Sedai's collective asses, and read what I said about steam transport. The Academy of Cairhien has the means to make steam-powered riverboats, and overland steampower is already a functioning concern, cutting the RIVER between Cairhien and Tear entirely out of the equation. I haven't done the math, but the speed of the steam wagons might actually match or surpass that of oar-, pole- and sail-propelled riverboats. Once they think to attach a steam engine to the paddle wheel that has already been invented, the Sea Folk are going to be obsolete on the rivers.

But it does run off the moral code by which we condemn the Children of the Light for using torture and the Seanchan for having slaves.

Rule by a queen is change for the Two Rivers. And I find it ironic that you are mentioning this lack of democracy in defense of the rule of a queen who needed to win an election.