This is not democratic.
In a democracy, the people are the sovereign. The people cannot be the sovereign if important decisions are kept in secret.
This is a serious problem.
In a democracy, the people are the sovereign. The people cannot be the sovereign if important decisions are kept in secret.
This is a serious problem.
When a law is not popular in Germany, they just pass it to the EU, where it is much easier to bring them into effect. Then they pressure our own parliament: "We have to comply to EU standards" and they just pass it on. There even was at least one case, where such a law was passed without thinking about it and our constitutional court had to cancel it as not constitutional.
These cases, where democratic decisions are circumvented are not single ones any more -- they are the rule, not the exception.
The US isn't a democracy, it's a representative republic. Big difference.
Your only power is voting for elected officials (modulo jury nullification, rioting, and overthrowing the government itself). If your elected representatives fail to represent the viewpoints of the actual public, the system has failed. Right now, the system has been gerrymandered to an extent that it qualifies as failed (plus the introduction of mass media populist manipulation plus the reduction in popular education levels allowing such easy manipulation).
Please stop this silly meme. "Republic" and "democracy" are not mutually exclusive terms. Under the usual modern interpretation of those terms, the US is a republic and a democracy.
Good consequence of this is that they are more reachable than any other sort of politician in Europe, except for city governments, but that of course will change if they actually get any teeth.
If they manage to pass anything at all it only happens because the big heads do not understand the issue and once they do it will get reverted or annulled.
However as it stands the EU has huge issues with lack of democracy, lack of accountability, and lack of transparency. And it is not looking good in that department.
There is a way to win though, just get lots of capital and you have the ability to change things. Until then, we can watch the wheels go round.
This has dire consequences, as we can already see.
I made my boss clear that he's not doing me a faviour by employing me, but instead we've made a fair deal: I work in the companies interest, they give me money.
My leader in the company can help to organize and represent my work, however, he can not treat me like a resource nor give me orders.
I fared very well by being clear on this in the beginning. Now I am basically free to work on what I think what needs to be done.
It's a decision to accept authority over you. You do not have to. Often, you shouldn't.
The government should apply regulation to not let this prophecy become reality, for else money will steer the people, not rational thought.
I'd rather plant my own food than to buckle for money. The more people think like that, the better we all will be off. This is not binary.
Do not forget that the company needs you, too.
We treat the environment as somnething passive that we have no control over. Environmentalists should personalise the argument instead of relying on cold scientific fact. The headline should be "politicians cause cancer".
People do care, but maybe not most of the general public. You could argue public apathy is only because they are not well-informed, however.
We still have horrible things like cargo ships burning bunker diesel, but out of sight out of mind.