While we bicker about the blue and red of our cola packaging, politian's purple ties or how much the reds are paying Facebook to help swing U.S. elections, we are distracted from far shadier behind-the-scenes dealings.

The bloodless coup d’ètat in Italy proves that any semblance of popular democracy in the EU is pure pantomime. The show is still run by an EU ruling class of corporate overlords, financial oligarchs, and their central bankers. Democracy is invalidated by their army of 82,096 lobbyists, 11,327 pressure groups and an entrenched class of political mobsters.