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"The crucial thing is that members of such aristocracy must be quickly and easily replaced when fail or lost support."

How is failure defined or support measured?

What mechanism exists for quickly and easily replacing the EU beurocracy?

Exactly how universities or professional communities do. Of course, there is also corruption, protectionism and cheating, but at least, competence or lack of it and failures are obvious to majority, given that they are competent themselves. Good schools manage all this well.

Like the professional medical community?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipman_Inquiry

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