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In 2016, I had a falling out with a friend of 30 years. He insisted the EU was a Godsend, that it was formed to maintain PEACE in Europe. I told him it was a totalitarian apparatus that would crush human freedom. He told me my views were ignorant, that I was believing and citing cheap propaganda. I could not believe he could not see what it was. But he was a professor of history, he could talk circles around me, about the history of European wars. The EU could do no wrong. And I was too unsophisticated to see what a peace-loving, progressive new government it was.
Uh huh.
Story update: This just in from Colin Brace, who wrote this in our comment section:
’I live in Amsterdam and was at that protest last Sunday. It was prohibited in advance by our (ugh) Green Party mayor. The police presence was massive. At precisely 1pm, like clockwork, a massive phalanx of riot police, with two water cannon trucks, cleared the park (Museumplein), kettled some protesters, whereupon the ugly but brief skirmishes took place, then, like clockwork, they packed it up and all drove off in their trucks and vans, leaving the huge crowd further in peace. It all had a theatrical quality to it. This isn't to trivialize the police violence, only to emphasize that they were basically just going through the motions. Who knows what is going on behind the scenes...’
As to the larger point about the EU, I've heard that argument many times, and perhaps the best response would be to simply point out that a "free trade zone with benefits", such as the EC was through the 80s, would have accomplished that goal -- and in fact did. People also point out other positive dimensions of the EU, such as consumer protections, environmental policy, or anti-monopoly measures, which are also undeniable. But the EU of today, anno 2022, is absolutely not the EC of the 80s. A silent slow-motion coup has taken place, and a profoundly anti-democratic technocratic supra-state is being erected. Anyone who resists loss of nation-state and popular sovereignty is depicted as a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing ethno-centric xenophobe, especially by the woke "Left". However, the internal economic contradictions are growing and it's hard to see how this malignant project can last for much longer. So-called rightwing populists like Victor Orbán are probably our only hope.
I don't know why people can't come to terms with the FACT that the greatest common denominator of human misery has been government for all of history. History professor? Left, right, liberal, conservative, communist, capitalist?! I don't care what side you're on unless you're on the side of human liberty and freedom.
It's actually pretty easy to see where anyone is at. Do you advocate for more of what has caused human suffering or the minimalization of it?