It’s getting pathetic. Or is farcical the proper word?
What to call it when European Union politicians, functionaries, and assorted
publicists, promoters, and hangers-on throw themselves into a full-scale
campaign to transform the continent’s peasants into enthusiastic boosters of
the whole elite EU project – only to fail ignominiously? And then, not having
learned their lesson at all, make another attempt to seduce the rabble? And,
when that fails, another? And another?
For years, the European ruling class has been struggling
to get the hoi polloi worked up about the EU superstate, which the
overwhelming majority of Europeans never voted for and which has steadily been
draining away legislative, executive, and judicial authority from the various
local and national officials that they did vote for. The apparent
determination of EU technocrats to enact – with no mandate whatsoever – strict,
nannyish laws governing absolutely every imaginable kind of activity within the
superstate’s borders has increasingly irked ordinary citizens. And the
disastrous effects of the euro have led more and more people to decide that
their own countries would be better off going it alone. Yet the efforts to win
over ordinary citizens continue unabated. On Tuesday, the New York Times ran
an inane op-ed, inanely entitled “The Fix for Europe:
People Power,” written by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Felix Marquardt…..To Read More…
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