Re:Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
by stfu on Sunday January 22, 2012 @06:18PM
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But please don't use the European structure as an example for a democratic system. The European Commission (who are the core authority for proposing legislation) is not a democratically elected body but an "appointed" entity by the Council - a Council that up until the Lisbon Treaty wasn't even required to hold their meetings in public.
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Re:Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
by muuh-gnu on Monday January 23, 2012 @06:16AM
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I was comparing the US and the EU because of a similar size. When you have 160 parties representing the views of 500 Million Europeans, it is very unlikely that having merely 2 parties representing the views of 300 million Americans is a natural, healthy state of affairs. The EU is of course not a role model for democracy, but it shows that the lack of diversity in US politics can not be a natural outcome of US voting habits. The lack of diversity (and thus lack of democracy) is fully intentional.