Project Syndicate EU With movements such as the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) in France and anti-PSOE protests in Spain, it”s looking like many in Europe are starting to reject globalism (i.e. the European Union) and accept nationalism (i.e. sovereignty). Since the boogeyman himself has now published a lengthy op-ed trying to explain why it is so important for the EU to stick around, things must be getting desperate. Here is a snippet of Soros” article: If they don”t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. In a long and eventful life, I have witnessed many periods of what I call radical disequilibrium. We are living in such a period today. Unfortunately, anti-European forces will enjoy a competitive advantage in the balloting. The EU can impose the acquis communautaire (the body of European Union law) on applicant countries, but lacks sufficient capacity to enforce member states” compliance. The antiquated party system hampers those who want to preserve the values on which the EU was founded, but helps those who want to replace those values with something radically different. This is true in individual countries and even more so in trans-European alliances. The party system of individual states reflects the divisions that mattered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as the conflict between capital and labor. But the cleavage that matters most today is between pro- and anti-European forces. The EU”s dominant country is Germany, and the dominant political alliance in Germany – between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU) – has become unsustainable. The AfD”s rise removed the raison d”u00eatre of the CDU-CSU alliance. But that alliance cannot be broken up without triggering new elections that neither Germany nor Europe can afford. As it is, the current ruling coalition cannot be as robustly pro-European as it would be without the AfD threatening its right flank. The situation is far from hopeless. Both Labour and the Conservatives are internally divided, but their leaders, Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May, respectively, are so determined to deliver Brexit that they have agreed to cooperate to attain it. The situation is so complicated that most Britons just want to get it over with, although it will be the defining event for the country for decades to come. Read the full article here George-F**king-Soros Maybe Europeans are finally waking up and realizing their countries are being destroyed by horrendous policies that are a detriment to their own interests (e.g. ridiculous “hate speech” laws in the UK, burdensome refugee and migrant relocation programs in countries like Germany, Sweden and France, outrageous “climate change” and “carbon footprint” taxes, etc.) What are your thoughts on the op-ed? Do you think nationalism – much like what President Trump preaches here in the U.S. (“America First”) – is winning over globalism? Leave a comment below. H/T: Zero Hedge Image Credit: YouTube 524 views
