- Nov 11, 2009
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Started off slowly, decended into self aggrandising waffle, tailed off further in the latter stages, but pulled it back nicely in the last line with a few words of spot on self critique!The EU system is a good one. like most Brexiters, you are easily pursuaded that democracy should be simplistic where people have direct electoral voting power, which on the face of it seems right but the problem is that in nearly every example it delivers the wrong result - like Trump, like Brexit, like boaty Mcboatface. Thats because people are easily conned and manipulated and leaves the door open for those with money and influence to win political power by creating perceptions through the media and winning support by malevolence and division, Brexit being the perfect example. The only way such direct democracy would work is if it heavily regulated, every statement, promise or fact would be checked,by an independent adjudicator and people educated on what is fake and exagerated, who people work for or being funded by etc, so there is full transparency in the pursuit that voters would vote in the best interests of the electorate as a whole, whicb would be extremely difficult to do. The (darker) powers that be prefer direct democracy as they can easily pour enough money into getting people to vote the way they want whilst also making the voters revel in the illusion they have a true democracy when in reality they have been duped into voting a certain way which is usually always against their own interests. The EU is a better political organisation as it is more self governing for the interests of the organisation as a whole - for the people it represents and not (like in this country and the US) one politicial party which is mostly working for the benefits of it's rich donors, big business and corporations and the people are just an afterthought.
So anyone who still buys into this idea of democracy and that the EU is not democratic really does not know what they talking about....