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Not sure why you're getting downvotes, most of what you say makes sense. Although I'm not following that "it matters who chooses your rulers". To be very naiv

Not sure why you're getting downvotes, most of what you say makes sense. Although I'm not following that "it matters who chooses your rulers". To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will be at least proportionally represented, right? Is it just a matter of scale (i.e. 500M Europeans vs 10M Belgians) or is there something else at play for you? I was thinking that if it's just that Europeans as a whole are less tuned-in to Belgian issues, well, you could make the same argument for a given Belgian city like Antwerp or Charleroi, cities for which the majority of Belgian people aren't attuned into. Yet it's okay for the Belgian government to make decisions that affect Antwerp? Then why not let the EU make decisions that affect Belgium?

pannSun 4y ago
> To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will be at least proportionally represented, right? How this fails is difficult to arrive at through theory. "Fortunately" we have examples from practice: Tibetan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong voters in China, Kurdish voters in Turkey, Kashmir voters in India [1], or Ukrainian voters under the Soviet union, to name a few. People don't behave as atomic individuals, but as members of groups. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new-status-could-bring-demographic-change-drawing-comparisons-west-bank/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...