The European Union has reimposed tight limits on states’ budget deficits — but with exemptions for military spending. After years of claims that austerity was over, we’re now seeing it used selectively to put limits on democratic choice.
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How does defending our countries limit democracy?
We have to stand together and have the military to uphold sovereignty otherwise there is no democracy.
how is anything we have a “democracy?”
capitalism is not democracy - and capitalism always keeps profit as its first goal. that includes ensuring people cannot rise up enough against it because they are swamped with debt and illness.
All corporations are inherentny autocratic
One man’s debt and illness is another man’s profit opportunity
turns out 300 million people in debt and illness is 6 men’s profit opportunity 😂
Capitalism and democracy are not mutually exclusive.
except on a long enough scale - ie day zero - they are. capitalism uses the marketing of the concept of democracy to convince the working class to give more and purchases the exact opposite of democracy in the form of laws and “benefits” from the ruling class. see also: monopolies and mergers.
You missed the point.
The criticism here is that the EU is decising for the member states what they can be in debt for.
I personally am a federalist so I don’t care much about EU overreach, all the opposite, but this is what the article criticises.
