Europe on a Slippery Slope

Op-Ed Contributor

Throughout the euro crisis, observers have been asking if the euro zone will disintegrate — as if it is a decision that will be made by its leaders at some point in the future. This holds out the prospect of a great historic choice: Europeans can choose to properly unite and overcome their crisis or they can choose dissolution. We wait with bated breath for the next summit or the latest “most crucial month in the euro’s history,” which now seems to come several times a year.   But, this may be the wrong way of looking at the euro crisis. Integration and disintegration are not just the products of deliberate decisions. They are both processes, set in motion by actions regardless of the stated intentions of leaders. Once underway, each process takes several election cycles — probably a decade or so — to reach completion. Only one will prevail in the end, but it is possible that in the early stages these two processes can coexist even as each vies for supremacy.

Looked at this way, the euro zone is in serious trouble. The events of the past six months are consistent with a process of disintegration, while the process of integration has steadily weakened. The question is no longer, “Will Europe unravel?” We should be asking, “Can European disintegration be reversed?” …To Read More…..

My Take - The EU was doomed from the beginning.  Why?  Because it represented all that is wrong with any government authority.  It was being run by a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats, a group that is eventually taken over by people with a personal ideology and a personal agenda.  Whether it was the communists who totally infiltrated the Roosevelt administration, or the environmental activists who have infested the USEPA and the Wildlife Service, the pattern is the same.  The bigger the bureaucracy the more it is infested by people who are clueless and powerful.

As time goes by people get sick of their pronouncements, intrusions in their lives, the inconveniences, and the economic hardship they eventually impose.  Even in Europe where socialism is almost sacrosanct they have had it with these uncontrolled elitists.  Sadly after the EU disintegrates they will then turn around and bring the same kind of people into power in their own nations. 

France is doomed, the new president is a failure, their economy is trashed and when they dump Hollende they will turn around and elect another socialist who will make even bigger promises that can’t be fulfilled and be an even bigger failure.  In the end all these socialist states will eventually be taken over by nationalists who will impose totalitarian control.  After that, war will be in the offing in order to stop their societies from falling into total anarchy.  Europe isn’t going to be alone either.