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Hardly unique to the EU… in the USA, it gets called “states rights”.

Fair. I would argue that the way federalism works in the US is far superior to what is going on in the EU and this puts a certain constraint on top down overreach. Ultimately Americans have more opportunities to vote with their feet and states that get it wrong are punished by that while states that get it right will benefit in the long run.

Also I would argue that the way the European regulatory bodies are being assembled is way more disconnected from the actual voter than in the US. Check how Ursula von der Leyen came to power. I have lived in both regions and I indeed think the EU has more in common with the USSR than with the USA. The US has many issues with permanent bureaucracies, overreach and what have you but it has also mechanisms to heal. I sadly don’t see these mechanisms in the EU.

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Anando Rando 3w ago 💬 1

At the end of the, both are ruled by an ever changing set of oligarchs. The most recent evidence of the hypocrisy at play on the US side is the “one set of AI rules to rule them all”, followed very closely by the pending SOCTUS ruling on “unitary executive conformation”, vis-a-vis the tariff legitimacy decision. What happens over the next 90 days will be very didactic with regard to how “democracy” is executed… (blindfolded with its back to a wall or reaffirmed, but in desperate need of reformation)

Oliveira 3w ago

I surely agree with the first statement.

Not too much into the two examples you gave though.

I am curious now… which reforms do you think are needed?

Given the nature of men and the given incentives in the political realm it feels almost unfair to complain about politicians being power hungry crooks. It’s literally what the system selects for… tragically…