A Real Life Minority Report...

[auroraglacialis]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Technically, what we have now is not actually democracy - we don't get a say in anything

No objections here. In the US it is really ugly as there are basically only two realistic options in votes, in the EU it gets even worse, as there is a EU commission that is not democratically voted but determined by the governments. That commission makes new laws and regulations, the parliament can object but has little power to do anything about it and the governments of the member states then have to change their own laws to reflect "EU policy". EU member states that are in financial trouble shall in the future even loose their right to vote in parliament until they get financially well again.
This whole thing is going into a direction I seriously dont like and I dont take it lighty if I mention that this somehow reminds me of history lessons in school about the 1920ies...

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

No objections here. In the US it is really ugly as there are basically only two realistic options in votes, in the EU it gets even worse, as there is a EU commission that is not democratically voted but determined by the governments. That commission makes new laws and regulations, the parliament can object but has little power to do anything about it and the governments of the member states then have to change their own laws to reflect "EU policy". EU member states that are in financial trouble shall in the future even loose their right to vote in parliament until they get financially well again.
This whole thing is going into a direction I seriously dont like and I dont take it lighty if I mention that this somehow reminds me of history lessons in school about the 1920ies...

There are MEPs (similar to MPs in our actual political system), AFAIK there is no american equivalent of those. Sure, it's completely broken by design, but I still think the american one is far worse.