Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
A president need not be one and the same as the head of government. The German President, albeit a politician, becomes party neutral on taking up the post.
The incumbent is not entitled to the job due to the bed they are born in and neither are they the apex of the class system nor the Head of Church. They also do not have the position for life.
His or her job is not to be loved nor reviled by the masses nor are they semi-deified by decking themselves in crowns and ermine. They tend not to own enormous swathes of their country, they don't own numerous palaces and they pay the same taxes as their fellow countrymen, who are not their subjects. No-one swears allegiance to them, no-one unilaterally bows and curtseys to them and they are not above the law. They are not lauded in national anthems, they are not addressed as Your Highness (and do stop to think about that one) and they are not responsible for planting gongs and titles to Lords and Ladies.
Thankfully, the young see the folly of having the medieval concept of a royal family and the latter are finding it increasingly difficult to be semi-deified whilst engaging in undue influence, adultery, sex scandals, selling their domestic problem to the world's press and media and a lot else.
Let's grow up and realise that there are mature and stable alternatives to forelock tugging, medieval concepts, embedded privilege and infantilisation.