It’s obviously better being ruled by someone who lives closer to you, looks like you, speaks like you, and shares your values. That is basically how participant

It’s obviously better being ruled by someone who lives closer to you, looks like you, speaks like you, and shares your values. That is basically how participants in a representative democracy think. Even if my local ruler is a corrupt incompetent PoS, I’d rather have him than some alien calling the shots. I acknowledge that perspectives can be biased. I’m a native of a former colony so I absolutely hate colonialism and don’t see any good coming out of it. Even though it I try to detach myself from that situation, I can see some good things have been done. But I think it’s fair to reason that we could have done those things ourselves given enough time and interaction with the outside world. At the same time it appears to me that people who are natives of former coloniser powers who want to keep apologising for and even glorifying the imperial times do so by minimising the extremely harmful effects of settler imperialism. Maybe they are compensating for the rise of a section of their culture which is too apologetic of their own history. So even though the actual events of history and their consequences are complex, in the current time I’d rather have a king/queen who has all their eggs in my basket than have a backup option somewhere else.