The Right of Democracy

[Viking]

We seem to be very good at picking Presidents who are idiots (oh, that's right, we don't pick them anyways), or at least bad, so why would it make a difference which idiot is in power? It doesn't, but it does give stability and an individual who is trained to keep away from the partisan bickering of ordinary politics.

You have no guarantee that the king is even going to be interested in politics, whereas a politician necessarily is; or whether he in fact will keep the country stable; he could very well have some revolutionary thoughts himself.