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>And then in a completely democratic mannner, Europeans said "that's who we want leading us". No, it wasn't. She was chosen by a group of country leaders durin
by wafflemaker 5mo ago
>And then in a completely democratic mannner, Europeans said "that's who we want leading us".
No, it wasn't. She was chosen by a group of country leaders during a closed doors voting.
If it's democratic at all, it's very tangential.
- pronik 5mo agoI've taken that comment to be very sarcastic, but maybe it wasn't.
- rayiner 5mo agoThere's an election in the chain. Voters elected the national MPs who then selected the national PMs, who then selected von den Leyen. Democratic-ish.
- joe_mamba 5mo agoAfter how many levels detached from the general population, does the vote stop being democratic?
- rayiner 5mo agoIt doesn’t stop being democratic. It’s just a scale from more to less democratic. America’s founding fathers were skeptical of democracy, so they provided for the president to be elected by the Electoral College, which was originally appointed by state legislatures. It’s still “democratic”—just less so than a direct election.
- joe_mamba 5mo agoAmerican people went to the polls to vote(or not) for Trump, Europeans didn't go to the polls to vote for Cenzura. Kind of a big difference on the democracy scale.