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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by GedByrne on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @08:45AM (#12035965)
"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?

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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by dschiptsov on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @08:49AM (#12036002)
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.
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Re:Salim Ismail – Our democracy is about to collapse by GedByrne on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @09:56AM (#12036432)
Like the professional medical community?

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

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