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"All countries, all cultures need to celebrate their commonality"

NO that is what allows a civilization to fall into the "world view". EU has some of the strictest PC rules going. They are trying to make themselves all alike and giving up the individuality that makes them unique.

The uniqueness as individuals, who willingly find a reason to be together is what makes for strength. The strength of each individual makes the whole stronger as the strong points of each one covers the weak spots of the other. The EU members are striving for commonality but are also suffering from a lose of each member countries identities and also loss each member of each countries identities.

It will not work. Here is an example on a smaller scale. Look at a football team. A team of all offensive sized and trained players ALWAYS will lose to a balanced team of offensive and defensive players. Within each offense there are 11 players with different specialties. Same with the defense. That is 22 separate positions that require specialist in each individual...(+ the special teams positions).

It is the differences of the players of each position on offense, and the difference between the players of each position of defense that makes for a great team. A whole team of Quarterbacks will lose (commonality fails). A whole team of centers fails. A whole team of kickers fails. The only commonality is the agreed GOAL of the team winning, but the individual specialties of each of the 22 positions (+special teams) is required and necessary. And that uniqueness of each player for each position is DESIRED. It is not in the EU or Islam.

The only place commonality works is when NUMBERS are not limited on one side. Even then there will be specialists who will play a critical role in the eventual victory. Commonality and numbers (& winter - a specialist) worked for the Russians in virtually every war. Commonality works for bacteria and cancer cells. Commonality works for social insects (bees, ants, termites). Commonality works for the Borg (you will be assimilated). Commonality worked for the muslims against the splintered individuals of the Mid and Near east when Islam was just starting.

But even among all those groups there were leaders and specialist that controlled and directed or directs the "whole". That is often the weak spot though. Commonality stifles growth in different directions which limits innovation. If the Soviet Union had a county of 300 million free thinkers they would not so quickly have collapsed when their controllers (single specialists) failed. No one had the habit of individual innovation. It was more important (and life assuring) to blend with the "common". Individuals ended up in Siberia in work camps learning to be common again.

Even in politics the U.S. has no commonality. We reinvent the players in government every 4 or so years. But the county does not implode like the soviet union did. It is still the individuality that allows the U.S. to be the innovator in the world. The U.S. is a country of individuals that has created more growth and innovation in food growth, science, medicine, mathematics, etc, etc than the combined "commoners' of the world. Even much of the soviet unions and now the Chinese advancements played or play off of discoveries from our less numerous, but more innovative citizens.

So commonality is NOT what the countries of the EU need. Then their jointly agreed and legislated weaknesses, their PC attitudes are magnified. "Don't offend anyone, we all agree to let everyone and everything be okay." EU is a move towards socialism that will kill the individual innovation of the members of each former state and allow a stronger and more numerous interloper, who has one single goal (spread of the religion of Islam), to overwhelm the less numerous EU.

Their muslim team of 89 big linesmen a full offense of 11 specialists will win against the team of 50 EU ice hockey players on a football field. Of course the more numerous team (with unlimited substitutions and additions) will decide the playing field and eventually get the agreeable ice hockey players to agree to the rules (football) that they will play under.

The ice hockey players will lose. Fewer players to substitute, playing under rules that the other team, because of numbers sets, playing with equipment not right for the game now being played. They will lose. Only innovation and deviation from the "accepted" norm would allow them to hold or win. But that "would not be sporting" so they will lose.

It is the overwhelming "commonality" of the EU that will allow it to be destroyed by a more numerous group of "commoners" (who are also not innovative) but have a single goal and identity. Just this new group will eventually have more numbers and a stronger joint goal. Death to the infidels. Those who convert will be allowed to live.

Sort of like a Borg. The europeans will convert and be assimilated or die. That is how it has always worked with Islam. It is how their god DIRECTS it to work in their most revered text... the Quran, Koran, whatever.

So with "commonality" the EU is done.

Sorry for the length, I was on a roll.