> But was she not elected by EU members of parliment, who were elected by EU citizens?
Yeah but no. I guess there's an electorate, as much as there's active components in homeopathic snake oil.
> I think it is more related to what powers they can exercise.
Nothing of that changes the statement that Mrs., err, von der Leyen is not directly voted by citizens. The word mongering is immaterial to the metacommentary on power structures. Which you acknowledge and leave pretty much unspecified. If I understand the top comment correctly, there is fear of corruption or whatever, and it's simply disengineous to blame that on the electorate.
As a point of reference, Fukuyama (end of history, etc.) outlines how corruption is a normal tendency en route to regulated democracies. In this view, where local patriotism and consequent nepotism are concerned, it sounds to me very much like the electorate shares in the blame, and that the organized societies on the next level, the model democracies, must have grown out of this.
I rather doubt that this is the case. Sure, the aristratic family name may be a statistical fluke, especially where family names pass through paternal lineages. It is nevertheless part of the bigger picture.
TL;DR: Yeah comissioners to the parliament are voted but no they aren't. This is not debatable.
Yeah but no. I guess there's an electorate, as much as there's active components in homeopathic snake oil.
> I think it is more related to what powers they can exercise.
Nothing of that changes the statement that Mrs., err, von der Leyen is not directly voted by citizens. The word mongering is immaterial to the metacommentary on power structures. Which you acknowledge and leave pretty much unspecified. If I understand the top comment correctly, there is fear of corruption or whatever, and it's simply disengineous to blame that on the electorate.
As a point of reference, Fukuyama (end of history, etc.) outlines how corruption is a normal tendency en route to regulated democracies. In this view, where local patriotism and consequent nepotism are concerned, it sounds to me very much like the electorate shares in the blame, and that the organized societies on the next level, the model democracies, must have grown out of this.
I rather doubt that this is the case. Sure, the aristratic family name may be a statistical fluke, especially where family names pass through paternal lineages. It is nevertheless part of the bigger picture.
TL;DR: Yeah comissioners to the parliament are voted but no they aren't. This is not debatable.