The United States of Europe might be a better name for the EU, patterned as it is after the USA, at least the socialist version. There is the same emphasis on welfare, open borders, and disempowering Judeo-Christianity–as well as centralized nanny state control and tax collection–emanating from Brussels and Washington. Monster megacities radiate leftist cultural values and dominate freedom-of-speech media outlets.
The sovereignty of individuals is a thing of the past. “It’s an opaque system that most Europeans either struggle to understand or display little interest in trying,” says the latest Time magazine cover article “The Unraveling of Europe.” In fact, “Until now there’s been only tepid attention paid to elections for the European Parliament, which take place every five years; in 2014, fewer than 43% of voters even bothered to go to the polls.” The author, Vivienne Walt of Brussels, declares that “Elections in May could finally allow populists and nationalists to remake E.U. from within.” The catalyst around the world is President Trump, who is well underway in making America great again, reversing the downward spiral.
All across Europe, in every country, ”a shakeout cannot come soon enough. Facing economic stagnation, uncontrolled migration and intense competition in a tight job market, many see E.U. officials in Brussels as remote technocrats determined to keep the bloc together, no matter the cost,” the article continues; “From Italy to Austria, millions have voted for populists and nationalists, who attack the E.U.’s core principles and who are plotting to remake Europe from within.”
EU countries farther east have already elected governments that are strong allies of President Trump, who is fighting to keep alive of what remains of traditional America by controlling unchecked immigration. Likewise, “The refugee crisis was a pivotal moment in Europe, and it set the stage for future divisions. While European leaders fought over how to settle migrants, whether to impose quotas on resettlement programs and the legality of deporting asylum seekers–still unresolved–populists and nationalists seized on the issue as the major rallying cry for their cause. In Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed 1 million asylum seekers, the crisis catapulted the first far-right politicians into the Bundestag for decades.”
The populist and nationalist base that gave Trump his upset victory in 2016 shares a common cause with the vast majority of Europeans who have watched their religious and social identities erode over recent decades. People are tired of the rich Democratic Party (and establishment GOP) liberals who run things in America, too. Europe has the same fears: “All over Europe you see the same split,” says the French Economy Minister, “One part benefiting from globalization, and the other suffering from globalization, adding that “Without a drastic fix, nationalism will increase its hold on the continent,” that “The status quo is not an option,” and that “The status quo will lead to the end of Europe.”
Political observers on both sides of the Atlantic are fearful that immigration is already establishing a core heterogeneous population that will remain problematic and confrontational for centuries to come. “The issue of migration is a game changer,” asserts Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. “It is the root cause for many of the political conflicts in Europe.” The Time article agrees with his assessment: “Even liberal politicians would agree with that. Migration has become a flash point in Europe’s politics. Though migrant arrivals have dwindled to a tiny fraction from a few years ago, at the peak of the migrant crisis in 2015, more than 400,000 people–mostly from Africa and the Middle East–crossed the Hungarian border in a desperate effort to reach Western Europe. In response, [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban sealed the border with barbed-wire fencing and introduced a law allowing the detention of migrants while their asylum applications are considered.”
In contrast with President Obama’s assertion that “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation,” Szijjarto warns that “Hungary and its allies in Central Europe like Poland and the Czech Republic are determined to block any moves in the E.U. to make Europe more ethnically diverse.” “We would never accept any methods or procedures that would change the composition of the population of the European continent,” he says. “Europe is a Christian continent.” In agreement, Orban warns that “unless Hungarians resisted the ‘liberal empire’ of the E.U., ‘Europe will no longer belong to Europeans.’”
Americans who still watch television—news, soaps, evening action dramas, cartoons, pop music, commercials— are fully immersed in barely disguised leftist social propaganda. They internalize liberal dogma and take pride in making it their own way of thinking. Such is the silent and invisible revolution now underway. This is all the more reason that we can at least consider the words of Orban’s spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs, who defiantly proclaims “Western Europe is trying to give us political, cultural, all sorts of lessons…We are not going to change.”
“The E.U. is a laboratory of ultra-liberalism, of free trade, of brutal globalization!” Le Pen told the crowd from the stage, above roaring cheers, and exhorted them to turn the May elections into “a revolt of populism.”
Marine Le Pen is a conservative French politician