Yeah, that's always been my concern with the EU (I'm American, for context): the long worrying practice where the legal concept of the EU is assembled by a small group who very much want EU citizens to go back to sleep and only wake up once all the laws and regulation has been created.
replyA federation makes sense to me: I live in one. But how the EU has assembled itself in a way that seems to unrepresentative has been worrying to watch over the last couple decades.
US House term is 2 years, European Parliament is 5 years. The latter is actually proportional at least but you can see how they’d only feel pressure every so often
replyBut it seems relative immune to the current rise of populism.
replyNot a bad tradeoff, all included.
It seems you have an issue with representative democracy.
replyQuite the contrary actually. I take issue with systems LARPing democracy.
replyThere is no such a thing as "representative democracy", that’s antinomic bullshit throw at people to lower it down to powerless populace.
replyEither citizens have the power, exercise it continuously in practice and are supplied with everything it takes to assume that role properly with all the duties it implies, or there is no democracy beyond empty words.
Has such a system ever existed anywhere? How would citizens even have the time?
replySwitzerland
replyContinuously exercised and on everything as a matter of course? Not all is done via direct democracy there (even though it is the ultimate backstop in a way), it also has representative democracy.
replySwitzerland is also a representative democracy
replyYou cannot compare 10 million people with 450 million people when talking about direct democracy. It cannot be done I think. But if you know a way propose it here.
replyJust saying lets vote directly on everything will put everything on hold until all goes down.