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It is possible today to get widescale movements of opinion going, and they may certainly include nominal criticism of persons in prominent public employment.
Possible, but difficult, I admit.
The ECB governing council is (according to that view) a for all practical purposes a group accountable only to itself and its cronies. Public opinion, in this view, doesn't matter. At all.
So the suggestion was, as it was euphemistically put, to "pressure them. Personally."
And since we are for the most part talking about experienced Lysenkoist hacks, the legal avenues for applying effective pressure to their persons are unlikely to be effective. People who are persuaded to abandon politically convenient idiocy by the mere fact that it kills people don't tend to make it to the governing board of the ECB.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
legal avenues for applying effective pressure to their persons are unlikely to be effective
That much I agree with.
Pretending that the ECB is impartial and unaccountable, as if it were a court of sorts, is a shell game, not a serious statement of institutional reality.
1. Can they affect you personally? (Everything from a big payoff or nice lunch to being scorn at the supermarket or getting relatives whacked counts.) ==YES=> Ok, they matter. Weigh them against other concerns. (Like what benefits your position and power. Oh, and personal opinions if any are left.)
1. Can they affect you personally? (Everything from a big payoff or nice lunch to being scorn at the supermarket or getting relatives whacked counts.)
==YES=>
Ok, they matter. Weigh them against other concerns. (Like what benefits your position and power. Oh, and personal opinions if any are left.)
4. Can your position and power be affected by voting? ==NO=> They do not matter
4. Can your position and power be affected by voting? ==NO
=> They do not matter
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