Comment by layla5alive
2 days ago
> The problem is that politicians don't seem to understand it.
The problem is that politicians were corrupted by power.
2 days ago
> The problem is that politicians don't seem to understand it.
The problem is that politicians were corrupted by power.
This is an extremely naive view of politics in complex systems like the EU. We're not talking about the US of French president here. The people in the 27 EU countries elect their EU representatives, and nobody knows them. People usually vote for a party, and they usually don't care much about the EU, except for complaining.
It feels like people who are against the EU vote for far-right politicians (the ones that are against the EU).
EU politicians are elected by the people and they represent what the people from the 27 member countries voted. Which is different from e.g. the US president, where the people don't really have much choice. Same in France, where people voted against the far-right and not at all for Macron.