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Originally Posted by sigma
Umm... that's just silly. Tony Blair, Jaques Chirac and Merkle (forgot her first name) and and were democratically elected. In fact if you want to get techincal about it Britain and California are probably more democratic than most places because they have mechanisms to remove unpopular officials from office. In Britian, Parliament can have a vote of no confidence, throwing out the PM and absolving his cabinet of ministers. In California, they have a recall referendum (as we all remember).
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Yes, but European voters have different preferences.
The same types of things that appeal to American voters would NOT sell well in Europe, and vice versa.
Asking voters for significant sacrifice, especially when it comes to energy use, is a very quick way to losing the next election in the United States and probably Canada as well.