In the EU, your vote matters even less than in most other Western democracies. There's two big blocks controlling the EU Parliament, and they vote the same 85% of the times. And if something really matters, then they'll use one of the multiple branches of the unelected EU bureaucracy to regulate it.

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The people that needs to fix it is braindeadly consuming state propaganda as information and applauding EU overreach and liberties cuts because "it protects them". At national level, the different shades of "socialdemocrats", " liberals", and "conservatives" keep the theater going to maintain the 24h news cycle noisy enough so people either fights each other or grow tired of it all and disconnects. That way the maintain a facade of political discussion. Nevertheless, in the EU national parliaments are very limited on what they can do, a bit less every day. Most EU regulations are imposed on all state members and can only be superseded by even more restrictive regulations at national levels. And what do they do at EU level all these parties that are seemingly so opposed at national level? Vote as the uniparty they really are. Voting harder is not only futile, it legitimizes the whole circus.