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If EU died, who do you think would take over and why do you think they'd be any better? Easy. Nation states would. And they'd do better, at least some of the t
by repolfx 8y ago
If EU died, who do you think would take over and why do you think they'd be any better?
Easy. Nation states would. And they'd do better, at least some of the time, because they're more accountable.
Just compare the Congress vs EUP performance. The USA is arguably too large and too centralised. But Congress, despite having many ancient politicians who clearly have never used the internet let alone Facebook, still managed to run rings around the EU "Parliament" (it's not really a parliament). The EU apparently allocated nearly all the hearing time to politicians speaking, leaving only minutes for Zuckerberg to reply, allowing him to pick and choose which questions he answered.
And yet there won't be any real impact on the EUP for this because it's not a real parliament, it can't actually change laws by itself. So the people who run can't have any real policies, and as a result it's stuffed with political nobodies with no ideas beyond rah-rah EU and sometimes boo-boo EU, so voters tune out and ignore it. There's little competition.
- pmlnr 8y ago> And they'd do better Not a chance. Not in Europe. Go and read about our history when there was no EU.