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Merkel was elected though, was she not? How is that not indirectly democratic then?
by malermeister 4y ago
Merkel was elected though, was she not?
How is that not indirectly democratic then?
- jansan 4y agoSorry, but that is laughable. If there was a presidential election in the US with two candidates, and after the election the governor of California installed Weird Al Yankovic instead of the elected candidate as the new presdient, would you call it democratic simply because the governor of California was elected?
- malermeister 4y agoIf in the US instead of a president, all you could elect was party functionaries to an institution with the explicit purpose of being between the voters and the decision and they then voted somebody in as president against the popular vote, would you call that democratic? Because that's what happened in 2016 and many times before that. Glass House, stones, etc.
- account42 4y agoActually, Merkel was not elected by the poulace but rather her party was. You see, it's layers all the way down and with each layer democracy gets thinner and the opportunities for corruption get bigger.