Originally Posted by ilnjscb

Yes, it does. Hilariously, England and Germany elect representatives by majority vote, who then promptly ally with anyone into groups called coalitions to gain power, then place a prime minister, or in Merkel's case bundeskanzlerin.

In all the cases you mention above, the people have no damn say at all in who runs their country, or the European Union. Not even the leaders of European countries have any real individual say in who runs the European Union. So the country leader position is once removed and the leaders of Europe are twice removed. So those fat-ass poof-haired FIFA looking motherfuckers who run Europe have absolutely zero accountability to the common man. The only requirement seems to be the same as people who design shoes, i.e. that your first name be some other nationality than your last name, like Jean-Claude Juncker or Manolo Blahnik.

They call it nationalism when a person wants to have some say in who runs their life.

However ...... Dictators have people killed when they disagree. Do you believe Putin has people killed routinely? Who knows.

To me, whether you have 1% freedom or 2% freedom matters, but not as much as some people think. Cause nobody on this earth is free except the very top elite.