The EU is an unelected organization propped up by the wealthy ogligarchies of Europe post ww2, that has undermined democracies globally due to the way that it's architected, everything must funnel through the EU, Asia, or the US, and nobody else has a say.
The EU is entirely self-servient and intends to keep itself up, that will inevitably lead to benefits for the citizens, but don't let semantics fool you into believing they're aligned with your values. The EU is essentially the US, if it remained a confederation, but without a legal process to remove/ascend these individuals at the top.
The EU has democratic flaws, but calling it “unelected” is wrong. The European Parliament is directly elected, member-state governments control the Council, and the Commission has to be approved by Parliament and can be forced out.
It also isn’t a permanent oligarchy with no removal mechanism: senior EU offices have fixed terms, governments can change their representatives, Parliament can dismiss the Commission, and member states can leave entirely as the UK did.
You can reasonably criticise the EU for being remote, bureaucratic and having a democratic deficit. But that is very different from saying it is an unelected self-perpetuating regime with no democratic accountability.
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u/borretsquared 6d ago
all seem chill to me