> Even in the US, we don't vote for our UN representative! (Do we?) Correct. The UN representative is a diplomatic ambassador. Just like every other diplomatic

> Even in the US, we don't vote for our UN representative! (Do we?) Correct. The UN representative is a diplomatic ambassador. Just like every other diplomatic ambassador. Also, similarly, the SCOTUS appointments. > while a democratic country like the US[1] is accountable to the people Different to the point you're making, but the US is accountable to the people in the same way. In the US, the federal government is appointed through the states: the district you live in determines which Representative seat you vote for, the state you live in determines which Senators you vote for and how much of an impact you make to the POTUS run-off based on the electoral college. In other words, the United States federal government isn't accountable to "the people": distinct parts of it are distinctly accountable to distinct parts of the people. And that's just the legislature plus one public office. The judicial isn't accountable at all, nor is any other part of the the executive. The rest of what you vote on in the ballot is state-level, county-level, and local-level. All of this is to say that the level of indirection you're talking about isn't a black-and-white binary. It's just one more iteration of an already very indirect chain.