Comment by Towaway69

The idea behind _representative_ democracy is that _we_ take holidays and our representatives do the work of upholding _our_ democratic values. These MEPs took their holidays before the parliamentary session was complete.

If we're talking about _direct_ democracy then we have to do the work ourselves but because we don't want to do that (because we want to go on holydays), we give up our rights to those who _want_ to represent us.

That, of course, falls apart once those representing us start to only represent themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_(Aristotle)#Book_III