or aristocratic family rather

you know we've had an elected monarchy in Poland

the plebs cant vote tho

dunno if you're familiar with that

our nobles were voting for the king

and it went down the shitter real fast

why?

game of thrones like intrigue?

or was the elected guy just a twat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_at_its_maximum_extent.svg/1280px-Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth_at_its_maximum_extent.svg.png

>go from this

>to nothing

>in 200 years

👌

wew

cuz we ended up having a string of idiots on the throne

thats why we need an impartial council

later on any polish-lithuanian king would be effectively elected by foreign powers...

>my idea was creating a commite with no political power that observes the heir during his growth to determine if he is capable, also he will be taught in morals and state theory and such

that's what was more or less happening, I mean not really the first part but the heirs would get education and shit

well the first part is the important one tho

why limit yourself to only those people from the royal family?

less of a hassle

there are thousands even more capable politicians out there

>less of a hassle

royalty has better access to education cuz they are rich and dont need to work

why is "hassle" bad

democratic process was designed to ensure fair and effective transition of power

it works

>royalty has better access to education cuz they are rich and dont need to work
modern elites are basically royalty too, they receive top tier education

thats we still have an elected parliament

thats the whole point

its that the elite

are smart

and one way to define elite is by going with royalty

yeah then why can't they run for the top office?

they can

in parliament

only royalty can

top office = head of the state

we dont need to make king head of state

we can make king and pm equals

as they hold ifferent authorites

I just don't see a reason at all to limit yourself to just a few of the people

I don't see anything that favors monarchy really 🤷

R O Y A L T Y A E S T H E T I C S

it might be aesthetic but you wouldn't want your fate being decided by aesthetics, but by merit

every single european monarchy ultimately went down the shitter

of those which didn't, they were gradually cessing their power to the parliament anyway 🤷

thats why I keep saying that its not an absolute monarchy

do you think there is anyone in your country more capable to govern than Merkel? 🤷

do you think a king would do better?

a king would hold different authorities than merke

and I dont think merkel is the pinnacle of governance

merkel would exist next to the king

if you go by aesthetics then you can have monarchy just like some European countries do - just for official things, but they hold no power whatsoever

on an equal scale with different powers

thats pointless tho

Merkel might not be the best politician in world history but she's an elite politician I don't see a reason to think otherwise, she's been able to maintain power in the most powerful country in Europe for all those years, and some of her schemes are quite impressive tbh like the same-sex marriage thing before the last elections that basically fucked SPD and die Gruene in the ass kek

do you know why merkel holds power?

because 40% of germans are old people

maybe its not Bismarck tier stuff but she's fine by me 🤷

it might be that

but I really don't see anyone more capable

all the people who vote cdu vote cdu because they always voted cdu

thats true

but that doesnt mean merkel is fine

its just that everyone else is incompetent

the best you can have 🤷

I mean I'm not really into this kind of thinking

if someone is the best I would rather say he's good and appreciate him instead of saying all the other people are incompetent

the bueraucratic machine we have in place only allows for small grey lumpf of human beings to get anywhere close to power

so I dont think that she is the best we can have

oonly the best we are allowed to have

do you really think Merkel isn't fine? of course some of her decisions were controversial, some were just utter shit(though I can see some reasoning in them anyway), but after all your country is doing graet

our country doesnt seem to have a backbone when it comes to the us and is a slave to the automobil lobby

impressive economy, billion budget surplus, billion trade surplus

many countries absolutely envy you

do you know why we have surplus

i know

it's still surplus 🤷

I wouldn't complain too much about that

because we dont get money for programs that benefit the citizens

uhh well..

our infracstrucutre is going down the shitter

thats just one thing tbh

just as much as my grammar is

I don't think German infrastructure is that bad tbh

look Italy <:haha:318675605233336330>

its not only physical infrastructure

I am talking digital

tbh

all of Europe is 1000000000 years behind in IT

that's true

but it's not only German problem

it's a thing bigger than Germany and I don't think you're the ones to blame

surely not Merkel

*well actually you're the ones to be blamed for it kek*

under merkel all germany is is a maintenance apparatus

"weiter so"