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We need more democracy - pan-EU elections for the President, pan-EU parties for the Parliament, etc.

• sprash 4y ago
  > pan-EU This would mean less democracy. As much as possible should be decided decentralized at a local level. I know where my mayor lives. He can't act against the interest of his own people for too long without some serious consequences. A pan-EU organization can.
  • mschuster91 4y ago
    > He can't act against the interest of his own people for too long without some serious consequences. If there is one thing where incompetent buffoons can act for far too long with impunity, it is local politics. Local politics usually don't interest anyone except pensioners with too much free time on their hands, and even if people care about local politics that doesn't mean they take care about democracy. The result are people like the disgraced Sheriff Arpaio.
    • sprash 4y ago
      The reason for the lack of interest is that local politicians don't have enough power. If all the local mayor decides about is whether the town hall is going to be blue or green, people don't care. If he can decide if people are allowed to visit local businesses with or without a vaccination verification people did care... a lot.
• bjelkeman-again 4y ago
  I used to think that. Who would get elected for EU president? I believe we have such diversity that the risk is that only the right wing hardliners could agree on a common candidate and we’d risk getting something like Orban or Berlusconi as EU president. I think you can see the trend in the US. So no thanks. I find the complexity of EU actually to be a feature, not a bug. There are drawbacks, but I’ll take them over the alternative you paint.