It's hard not to become a Euro sceptic

[Louis VI the Fat]

in a democratic system minorities are automatically oppressed

No. No, the measure of democracy, it's true worth, is that in a democracy no minority is oppressed. Democracy means the exact opposite of its common definition: democracy is not majority rule, but minority rights. The entire point of clumsy, cumbersome democracy is that the voices of all are heard, that no majority can trample any minority, that even a minority consisting of one sibngle person still enjoys rights.

As it isn't a dictatorship it must be an oligarchy with a democratic sop.

ergo, it is the Roman Republic.

As I am not a bird I must be a frog.

A frog is green. The Amazon rainforest is green. Ergo, I am the Amazon rainforest.




*increases taxes to hire the extra staff needed to cope with the extra workload of this increased taxation*