Comment by LunaSea
1 day ago
> "The EU" is our elected governments
Is that why the EU MEP can't propose laws?
Is that why the Commission can ignore the MEP's votes?
Also, many European governments have not been elected by people voting for them but by people voting against their opponent. Hardly a vote of confidence.
> An extra vote on top of the election was always foolish.
Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion. If only we could have one strong man or woman decide everything.
The Commission is literally our elected government's representatives.
It's not some outside power. It's people our governments send there. And it's exactly the same amount of democratic as a ministership is.
> Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion.
The average voter doesn't know everything about everything. That's the whole point of representative democracy, to elect a representative to deal with the intricacies of governance. That's how most democratic countries in the world are structured.
> The Commission is literally our elected government's representatives.
Oh, von der Leyen was elected?
Mertz represents 28,52% of the German people who voted. Who is he actually representing? Definitely not the German people, that's for sure.
> The average voter doesn't know everything about everything. That's the whole point of representative democracy, to elect a representative to deal with the intricacies of governance.
No, representatives are there to represent the opinions of their electorate. It has nothing to do with knowledge.
Representatives have teams of assistants that actually do have knowledge. No representative is writing laws themselves. That's why you see laws being lifted straight from industry lobby groups' legal teams.
In the U.K., Starmer won a landslide victory with 34% of the vote.
Sunak was not elected by the people. Neither was Truss, Johnson, or May
Cameron got 36% of the vote when he became PM. Brown wasn’t elected. Blair did well with 43%, but before him Major wasn’t elected.
Democracies are flawed, they’re just better than other systems we’ve had in the past.