03-04-2025, 01:44 PM
I put it in quotes because it's not democratic at all, and yet this sort of little veto power exists everywhere. In most EU states, the idea of the collective occasionally overriding the individual is an accepted fact of good government. To many in the anglosphere, it's deeply offensive - and is why the housing crisis is mostly an Anglosphere problem. If you can "get yours" and deny it to somebody else, driving up the value of your assets, you're gonna do it! This applies to pipelines and houses and factories and mines and all sorts of things that are public goods but subject to the craziest vetoes.
local cambridge weirdo

