Politicians and bureaucrats who lacked a strong father figure is my genuine unironic non-disparaging answer.

There are a great many people in this world who not only look to government for a sense of safety and direction, but seek to impose that paternalism on everyone else for “their own good”.

People can't say no to the EU. That's such a common misconception on HN. The EU has a body it lyingly calls a parliament, which doesn't get to decide what laws are proposed or passed. It's more like an upper house that can only slow down or veto legislation, which is why it fills up with political nobodies who either just cheerlead for the EU or want to see their countries leave it. It's not like they can do anything else.

So people say no and they just bring it back again, or get activist judges to discover that it was legal all along. It's not like voters can kick them out.

Bourgeois representatives who know they can't keep their wage-slaves in check if they organise online. They will absolutely extend it beyond the current scope