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The european commission is elected, just indirectly. It is proposed by the european council, and the european parliement says yes or no.

Saying that indirect elections are undemocratic is like saying Switzerland is not a "liberal democracy" because its federal council is elected by the federal assembly instead by direct popular vote.

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That's a terrible argument and one that gets trotted out every time. We can do better than this. We should.

The CPC governing bodies are indirectly elected too, by members of the Party, of which most anyone can join. That doesn't make it democratic.

Let's not play fast and loose with democracy here. We deserve, and should agitate for, more representative democracies else we slide slowly toward the very tyrannies we oppose.

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