Democracy as a concept versus liberal democracy. The EU eggheads are of course talking about liberal democracy. Advocates of liberal democracy also often ping

Democracy as a concept versus liberal democracy. The EU eggheads are of course talking about liberal democracy. Advocates of liberal democracy also often ping-pong between the propaganda version of “democracy” (as in rule by the people) and liberal democracy. Because they to a limited extent need to appeal to the people, hence the propaganda face. But the liberal democracy face is when they talk about actual-existing democracy... > The first half of the EU definition is much weaker ("participate in" vs "rule") and the second half directly contradicts the Wiktionary definition: ... the anemic variant where they (politicians, bureaucrats, rich people (with opinions)) have much more power than the average citizen. Then when really getting down to it they will push the liberal part of liberal democracy in front of themselves. Where “the rule of law”, “human rights” etc. are embodied by themselves much more than the people.