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Years ago, I spoke with a guy from Europe...he said America opposed the EU because--get this!--because we're envious that they would become larger as a economical/political force than the USA.

That's what he thought.

I laughed. I tried to explain to him that we weren't at all insecure. I questioned why he thought he had to turn against, or at least compare the EU to, America. (That showed that it was they who were insecure, and had that chip on their shoulder.)

So, he put it bluntly: why are so many Americans opposed to the EU?

I told him it wasn't a strong united European economy we feared. It was the very charter of the EU, its founding documents, statements by its leaders. At its founding core, there was no basis, nor defense of, individual human rights at the same level in which they exist in our Bill of Rights.

It was the potential for future dictatorship that we opposed, and we Americans were warning them they were marching too quickly, blindly, into the arrangement.