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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I dunno, it seems like sometimes you have to take one step back to take two or twenty or two hundred steps forward.
There are a lot of really ####ty systems and institutions out there. If things are going well for you, then of course preserving those conditions seems preferable. Which probably factors into my opinion that the monarchy is really dumb, but as good as any option to serve its limited but imported function. Mostly I just don't trust us to come up with anything better right now.
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Personally it is the whole inheritance and class privilege aspect of the system that bugs me. I do think there is value in having someone who isn't tied to the current political party in power or worried about being re-elected with a function that is mostly ceremonial but can be a final check on something really insane. To me the Governor General role does have some importance and I don't like it when it is filled based on celebrity (e.g. Clarkson, Payette) instead of by someone who actually understands the Constitution and the role.