http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ld-we.html
Interesting article. I have no idea how many Americans would think the EU is good for it's member nations, 30-50%?
In the last three paragraphs the author shows how little he knows about modern America. For a couple decades now the elites have encouraged us to be more multi-culti, and less "American," whatever that means, & more like the previously divided Europe.
I think it is as foolish for European states to surrender sovereignty to Brussels, as it has been for US states to kowtow to DC. Don't do it.
another tragedy of the worship of group identity
" It is not just that we are being ever more frequently outvoted in the council of ministers, and our officials ever more heavily outnumbered in the Commission. The whole concept of “pooling sovereignty” is a fraud and a cheat. We are not really sharing control with other EU governments: the problem is rather that all governments have lost control to the unelected federal machine. We don’t know who they are, or what language they speak, and we certainly don’t know what we can do to remove them at an election....
There is a profound difference between the US and the EU, and one that will never disappear. The US has a single culture
(Really???? It defies definition. -SM), a single language, a single and powerful global brand, and a single government that commands national allegiance
(too bad they don't try for respect. -SM), . It has a national history
(Again, defined by whom, and do they like it or hate it? -SM), , a national myth, a demos that is the foundation of their democracy. The EU has nothing of the kind. In urging us to embed ourselves more deeply in the EU’s federalising structures, the Americans are urging us down a course they would never dream of going themselves. That is because they are a nation conceived in liberty. They sometimes seem to forget that we are quite fond of liberty, too.
