Do EU politicians not believe in democracy?

Question

European Union leaders are abashed after Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty for further "reform", the purposes of which are to further dilute individual countries' rights of sovereignty and to concentrate even more power into the hands of the EU establishment.

(All this would be like cutting back states' rights in the US.)

Despite the Irish vote, France and Germany have urged the EU to press ahead with the reforms. I have noticed this attitude in other scenarios, too. They won't take "no" for an answer. They will insist on repeated voting until they get the "result" they want.

The EU is just a vast bureaucratic machine. It is turning Europe into a dictatorship so shouldn't we dismantle it now, before it goes any further.

Answer 1

Agreed

Answer 2

yeah we should get rid of it, I hate politicians they are supposed to represent the people instead they have their own agenda.

Answer 3

i don't follow local politics, wasn't a united europe and single currency hitler's idea?.

anyway, in this climate is is better to be one of the super economies, america (for the time being) and china have too much influence imo. as far as super economies go, i think europe is by far the most democratic.

Answer 4

Absolutely. Clearly no one in the world knows how to be a democracy besides America. We certainly don't ignore the popular vote here.

PS. State's rights? That hasn't been an issue since, oh, the Civil War.