There is a movement of global proportions which threatens the framework of western inclusive democracy. It is a dogmatic view of the world. A battle between Patriots and Globalists.
America succumbed to the false charisma and showmanship of Donald Trump – a retired reality TV star. Trump exalted the common man’s struggles, blaming trade deals and foreign influences for collapsing factories and a lack of opportunities.
And now the waves of this force are sweeping across continental Europe. The union, which has served the interests of peace and tranquility for fifty years, may be on its last legs.
With the British succumbing to nationalism and voting against inclusion in the European Union – they love their Island – in a referendum, the precedent had been set by a country that at one point was the greatest colonial power the world has ever seen.
The British succumbed. Who is next?
And now, Marine Le Pen, whose political paradigm is Patriots vs Globalists, is expected to make the final round of voting in the upcoming French presidential election. She is an ardent socialist who believes in closed borders, a “Frexit”, and has a Nationalistic fervor that can only be rivaled by a fantastical supervillain (think Voldemorts disgust of muggles). Her opponents have labeled her as an antisemite and islamophobe.
She is joined by Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician who has been called the Dutch Donald Trump. His far right stance on immigration, as well as his support for a Dutch escape from the European Union, puts him in the same boat as Le Pen.
And what would happen if Le Pen achieves victory?
The German’s are in the middle of a Greek state on the hinges of total economic collapse, an Italian government that has lost the trust of the people and may lose to another far-right nationalist party, The Spanish Republic which looks more likely to break up with each passing month, and The British who want nothing to do with them.
If France decides to go, then who will be in this great European Union?
Will there be one when the dust settles?
The real reason for ‘Brexit’ is that there was never a referendum on ‘Brentry’, so democratic consent to join the EU was never given in the first place. If the EU breaks up, then what should replace it would be a common market for trade in goods and services; and nothing more than that. This is what those British people who supported the EEC voted for in 1975, not for a political union. If you want to call that nationalism that is your prerogative, but we Britons have long been more outward looking than most of the nations of continental Europe.
But economic union eventually leads to political union. It’s impossible to split the two. For example, the state of workers coming to and fro between Europe and Briton, as well as the approval needed for them to be in briton, this is a political and political And economic issue. Divorcing the two is accepting a logic that existed before the Cold War ended.
The EEC or ‘Common Market’ was a tariff-free trading zone and nothing more than that, nor did it ever need to be anything more than that. So it is not a case of divorcing economic union from political union. The plan all along however was to create a political union by deception; and it is precisely because of that, that it will not survive. As for the British position, it is quite simple, to trade with the rest of the world, as we have done for centuries, we should not have to go via a third party.
I do not question your understanding of this particular issue, nor do I throw skepticism at you in regards to “political union by deception,” I ask where information regarding this deception can be found, and if you can gift me with it.