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To the Editor:
Re "Europe's Populist Backlash" (editorial, Oct. 16):
The European Union is a limited democracy. Decision-making is distant — very distant — from "demos," the people. The European Commission's decisions are popularly constrained only by widespread popular action.
If the commission and its allies persist in ignoring popular disagreement with their austerity policies, then it is they who are the cause of the rise of populist demagogy. Demos would prefer respectable leaders, but if there are none who listen, then demos will turn to the demagogues.
The commission and its allies are all the more culpable because there is today absolutely no serious intellectual support for austerity policy.
Demos is right and will not be denied. The question is whether the baby will be thrown out with the bath water.
BOB NELSON
Calais, France, Oct. 16, 2013
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