Horrendous, but the nice side effect... the more China, Russia, and other totalitarian states double down on these efforts, the easier it is to argue against them in the West.
Or have you skipped voting in the EU elections?
In your average EU country the elected parliament chooses the government. Not in EU.
In the EU it works exactly the same: you vote for a party, which has a vote on accepting or rejecting the proposal for the current proposed commission (where there has to be 1 nominee from each member state and is handpicked by the council of European Union, i.e. your ELECTED state ministers)[1][2].
Can the EU become more democratic? Absolutely, but that will be at the expense of EU member state's sovereignty, which is why it looks like it does right now.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#...
There is no EU country that has a Council like that. Heads of state very often don't represent the majority of a country.
No all you've shown is that you did not read my sources nor my comment.
As is shown by you confusing the Council of European Union and the European Council.
Not only that, but you show no real evidence of knowing even how elections with in EU countries, since EU member states, with the exception of hungary, all have a council deciding who will be a nominee for their version of a commission, the only small difference is that these councils are unofficial in EU member states as it is a matter of political party/coalition concern and not a national concern, as IS the case with the EU.
So if anything EU is more "official" in being a democracy than even member states, when it comes to transparency of deciding the nominees for various positions, something NOT official in average EU member states.
These systems being deployed in countries such as China and Russia gives the rest of the world a peek into how it works, and a chance to understand how to best resist totalitarian tendencies. Unfortunately it also gives an opportunity for other governments to learn what works and what doesn’t.
It doesn't blur the line between private and public but again, it's a slippery slope. The tracking and scoring infrastructure is there, it just takes will to steer it to another direction.
We are however degrading and I care very much about what is happening here right where I live rather than twisting some other country's hands into "democracy" by way of sanctions, bombing etc.
I don't know. Speaking strictly objectively: if you look at polls, Putin is extremely popular amongst republican voters.
Russia is a separate subject I think. Putin being bad as he is I think the way situation is turning out could be the biggest US fuck up ever
But in any case, it's another example, in Russia there was no need to argue about the war because the pro war side (Putin) won by default without even considering what the other side thinks, and it only shows how lost the cause of democracy is there
> If you feel need to argue you are not winning
Yeah Putin never felt the need to argue about war. Meaning that logic makes absolutely zero sense unless you're a dictator.
They will eliminate cash and now social system is even worse.