That's how democracy works. You elect people so they decide things for the people. Sometimes they can in turn elect other people.
It's impossible to put everything up for vote (and the results would be disastrous unless the majority of the population would be highly educated).
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Well, that's how representative democracy works. It's not how democracy works.
But even in a representative democracy, there's still this line out of history: "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". If the EU (or the US Congress) makes decisions that alienate too large a chunk of their citizens, then you wind up with a government in power that does not have the consent of the governed, and which therefore is viewed as illegitimate by a large chunk of the people. And then comes trouble, in one form or another.