Posted on 09/19/2023 5:30:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In case you missed it, September 13 was the big day – the occasion of the annual “State of the European Union” speech by European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen. Whether you voted for her or not – no, scratch that; unless you’re a member of the European Commission, which nominates its President, or the European Parliament, which chooses to ratify or reject the Commission’s selection, you can’t possibly ever have voted for her. Free and fair elections by the citizens of sovereign nations? Forget them! They’re so twentieth century. Don’t you realize that the European Union has moved far beyond such antiquated concepts, and is fast advancing toward a degree of international integration and power concentration – known in the EU lexicon as “democracy” – that it’ll make the likes of Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum pea-green with envy?
But before we get to van der Leyen’s speech – and to the not-to-be-missed response by Guy Verhofstadt – let’s go back briefly to the beginning. You know, of course, that the cause of European unity has a long and noble history. Napoleon did his best to bring it about in the early 1800s. A bit over a century later, Hitler gave it the old college try. After World War II, the Soviets would have had a go at it too, but the Western Allies were spoilsports. On the western side of the Iron Curtain, however, there quickly arose a postwar movement to unite Europeans under one government, whether Europeans themselves liked the idea or not. The name most intimately associated with this movement was Jean Monnet, a Frenchman from Chablis whose family business was the production of chablis and whose obsessive pursuit of European unity makes one wonder if he was guzzling too much chablis. To read about the life of this wine merchant, who became known as the “father of Europe,” is to learn about a career consisting of a long series of fancy-sounding jobs as international advisor, diplomat, and negotiator, of memberships on various blue-ribbon commissions, committees, and councils, and of the high-level hatching of various plans, projects, and programs. What you never come across is mention of an election. Because nobody ever voted for Monnet for anything.
To be sure, the other major founder of the EU, Robert Schuman – who was born in Luxembourg with German citizenship but became a French citizen when his ancestral homeland of Alsace-Lorraine changed hands after World War I (which may be the ultimate European story) – was indeed active in electoral politics, serving after World War II as France’s Prime Minister and then its Foreign Minister. In his sales pitch for what would become the EU, Schumann acknowledged the failings of the feudal systems, empires, and utopian dreams of the past, but claimed that it was possible to move beyond, and avoid repeating, the recent “clash of nationalities and nationalism” (i.e., the war) by bringing the peoples of Europe under the umbrella of a single “supranational association” that would “safeguard” national identities (whatever that might mean) even as it took on the task of, well, actually running things. How, you might ask, would the people figure into this? What people? You mean the rabble?...
Why do people want elitists to control every aspect of their lives? How many EU regulations are there for a toothbrush? Something like 100...which must be met for a toothbrush to be sold in the EU.
As I recall, after the breakup of the USSR, the US was the only superpower nation in the world and the Clinton/Albright team believed that was not good for America and so they played a major role in developing the EU so that we have a major competitor. I read Madeline Albright’s book many years ago and it seems to me she spoke some of which I just said.
Politicians everywhere are tired Elections and want to had their seat to their family in their Will
“In his sales pitch for what would become the EU, Schumann acknowledged the failings of the feudal systems, empires, and utopian dreams of the past”
So what does he do? He sets up a neo-feudalistic utopia.
Elections? Borders? Constitutions? Free speech? Medical Consent? The 50s are calling and want their Rule of Law back!
What is the point of an election if it is not free & fair? The answer is that it is not really an election, but an edict for a dictatorship & NOT what our Constitution was set up for.
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