I am still to see as many people getting riled up about how those countries are not democratic.
From what I remember the head of the european commission was picked from a group of people that weren't even up for election after the official candidates that were paraded around during an EU wide election where dismissed.
Nobody really knows or cares who is going to be appointed to the commission since domestic issues always completely over shadow it.
Their opposition is ideological, democracy is just an excuse because their true views would be too unsavory to say out loud.
Many people are confused by the fact that only States can vote for President. The most a person's vote can do is provide input into their State's votes for President.
It has never happened, but if there once would be enough faithless electors to swing the election (choosing a different president than what people voted for) it would be a huge scandal and it would be widely condemned as undemocratic.
There has been so far 5 elections where the electoral vote chose a different president than what the popular vote count would have chosen. But this is a different thing than what I was talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
The UK pm and the POTUS are both ultimately accountable through elections. In the UK, a general election can change the government. In the US, people vote specifically for presidential electors, even if it’s through the Electoral College.
The EU commission is different. People don’t vote for commissioners or the president, and they can’t vote them out in the same direct way.
the US president is appointed by politicians who are elected, and the only accountability mechanism for president is impeachment, which is again, indirect via elected politicians.