re: #136 Freeze Peach

This guy wants to be a new German Kaiser.

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[Link: www.zeit.de…]

There is some background to this: namely that the most recent German President (an almost entirely ceremonial position with no actual political authority or power) just reisgned in ignomy over some pathetic bribery charges.

His predecessor resigned in a huff over the treatment he got from the press over some off-the-cuff remarks about the role of the German military in Afghanistan.

So there are people who would like to reinstate a ceremonial, constitutional Monarch.

One thing that I point out to the occasional monarchists I encounter here (there are a handful) is that while many nations have a royal family and/or a royal tradition going back centuries, modern Germany only had a Kaiser for a bried perios (1871-1918), and he was considered a comic figure and a laughingstock, not only by most of Europe, but by many of his subjects.