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bojantoday at 10:42 AM4 repliesview on HN

This _is_ democracy. Europeans don't vote left and green.

Those groups have only 235 seats in the EU parliament out of 720.


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danielscrubstoday at 11:24 AM

Then no lobbying against the politicians would be needed to be done.

It’s easy to reduce it to party lines, but that kind of thinking is just wrong. Details matters.

Is there a word for reducing it to something abstract and then attacking the abstraction, even though it is leaky?

1718627440today at 1:05 PM

I don't vote left and green, rather the opposite and I still care about "human rights and climate law".

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arp242today at 12:57 PM

It's not only "left and green" that have a policy agenda on climate change. Parties in the centre and centre-right do too. Of course there are disagreements on various trade-offs, but it's only really the far-right that strongly objects to action on climate change.

jack_trippertoday at 11:00 AM

>Europeans don't vote left and green.

Not difficult to see why when both parties have implemented policies that have become very unpopular with the masses. You're not gonna win voters on "let them eat cake" policies when the no. 1 concern of voters is keeping their job and affording the ever increasing bills.

Both left and green parties have been writing cheques that the working class had to cash, so now they're experiencing the backlash consequences of their actions. It's just democracy at work.

They need to "git gud" and give the people what they want if they want votes. It's really not rocket science, but self reflection seems to be heavily lacking in politics due to how detached the ruling class are from the working class.

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