{"id":43077,"date":"2018-05-04T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43077"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:23:22","slug":"qotd-the-eu-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/qotd-the-eu-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The EU and democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The EU is quite clear however that it stands as the champion of democracy, just not the kind of democracy that involves people voting. No, for the EU democracy means compliance with the EU&#8217;s standards and rules &#8211; any departure indicates a drift towards un-democracy that must be checked by sanctions and punishments, even if people voted for it. The EU&#8217;s democratic principles, you understand, trump stuff like elections and voting; they are a purer form of democracy, crafted by unelected officials and demagogues free from popular approval. And yes, there are many in Brussels who actually believe all that. <\/p>\n<p>Raedwald, <a href=\"https:\/\/raedwald.blogspot.ca\/2018\/04\/sorry-herr-juncker-your-woes-are-just.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sorry Herr Juncker your woes are just starting&#8221;, <em>Raedwald<\/em><\/a>, 2018-04-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU is quite clear however that it stands as the champion of democracy, just not the kind of democracy that involves people voting. No, for the EU democracy means compliance with the EU&#8217;s standards and rules &#8211; any departure indicates a drift towards un-democracy that must be checked by sanctions and punishments, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62,84,41],"tags":[766,337],"class_list":["post-43077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-government","category-quotations","tag-democracy","tag-eu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bcN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43078,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions\/43078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}