So France is once again ruled from Berlin by a willing band of turncoat French open-borders and open-legs administrators of decline. \u00a0This EU stuff is interesting not only in its own right, but as a cautionary model of the Unites States as well. \u00a0The differences are obvious, the similarities not so much, but I posit that the similarities are worth looking into just the same.<\/p>\n
Whereas the EU lacks an authoritative central government, it remains very much a thing more like a nation-state than any other collection of countries which might also lack such a central government — OPEC, ASEAN, OIC, and so forth. \u00a0The only organizations which are more like nation-states are actually declared as such — centrally governed federations like the US and the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n
As Nigel Farage has pointed out, the EU parliament in Brussels has serially ignored “out” national referenda by countries as diverse as Spain, Ireland, and France, instead demanding that votes be held again and again until they turn out in favor of the EU. \u00a0So far, only the UK has succeeded in putting its Wellington down and keeping it there.<\/p>\n
So a federated model is no guarantee against the influence of a centralizing force with a veneer of overall buy-in. \u00a0Recall that time and again, individual nations in the EU have had their affairs run from the center and their wishes overruled. \u00a0So how much *more* possible is this sort of thing to happen in the United States?<\/p>\n
Our Constitution seems to be proof against the most egregious abuses, but this is a comforting fairy tale. \u00a0In fact, the doctrine of the Living Document, and the failure of states to defend their own and our own rights, have given us a ready-made tyranny, ripe for the taking. \u00a0Look at how close we came to a Hillary presidency, and consider that perhaps only Trump could have beaten her.<\/p>\n
Had that happened, we would now wish for as putative a centrist as Macron as President, and we would envy the British their lukewarm Brexiteer Theresa May. \u00a0Our states mean nothing in the present tense — they mattered in the past, and there is hope for the future, but right now, state governments are clock-watching dispensaries of federal bribes. \u00a0Our internal borders are meaningless as defenses against the open-borders treachery of the central government. \u00a0The Commerce Clause, which should by rights be an obscure bit of legalese, is instead one of the cornerstones of the state-to-federal relationship, to the advantage of the feds. \u00a0We are far more like the EU, a loose economic federation the central committee of which has aims of becoming a continental overlord, \u00a0than it is comfortable to think about.<\/p>\n
Obama’s policy of settling a mass of homogenous non-assimilating cultural antipodeans in our cities and states against our will is a feat unseen since Stalin aimed to bust up his political problems. \u00a0We may consider ourselves lucky<\/em> to be comparable to the EU when this is done.<\/p>\n