Quote Originally Posted by Gentleman Doli View Post
#1) the queen isnt hitler and hitler was only elected because germany got rid of its monarchs
#2) the institution of constitutional monarchy itself is probably one of the best in the world since it provides stability, legitimacy, and an emergency switch that can be pulled when necessary - like in the instance of hitler rising to power. the reason it is inherited is because it is one person who has spent their entire lives preparing for that one moment when they need to step in and do something important. when the netherlands were invaded by germany during ww2, queen wilhelmina practically ran the resistance herself and lent immediate credibility to the government-in-exile, the spanish king (who was only restored in 1970) stared down a fascist military coup that wanted to strengthen the powers of the king and forced them to stand down with nothing but a television speech, and the emperor of japan was one of the only things that managed to keep the japanese subdued after ww2

symbols are important and monarchs with virtually no power are fine in my book
#1) the queen is worse than hitler and hitler was elected because the weimars were buttfaces and used kaiser wilheim to give legitimacy to his dictatorship by drawing parallels with the monarchy, he even held a state funeral for the fucking guy
#2) for every example you find of kings doing something noble I can find 50 of them being either useless or detrimental and we both know it so I'm not even going to bother listing specifics. you'd run out before I got halfway through caligula.