Tuesday, May 27, 2014

You Really Think the EU Elites Care What the Peasants Think?

There seems to be a bit of triumphant anti-EU talk after the latest EU elections put anti-EU parties in stronger positions. As if the EU cares about that.

What part of bureaucratic dictatorship of experts are you unclear about? You really think that mere MEP counts will count for anything when it matters?

“Shock,” “Anger,” “Earthquake”—those are among the more frequent epithets employed to describe this weekend’s European elections. All across the continent, voters turned out to deliver a resounding defeat to the top-down, politically correct, big-government, Brussels-centric, rule-by-unaccountable-elites project that is the European Union. For years, Brussels has demanded allegiance to its mildly socialist species of transnational progressivism. Local initiatives were everywhere forced to give way to the whimsical diktats disgorged by distant bureaucrats.

As if.

The forces of counter-revolution have the advantage.

I'll believe that anti-EU forces can win when a country successfully withdraws from the EU based on popular rejection of the Soviet Union Lite in Brussels without invoking the New Brezhnev Doctrine.

Why we officially support the idea of the European Union is beyond me. Europeans can be our friends. European states can be our friends.

Europe will not be our friend.