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The EU was not content to be a free trading, monetary & economic confederation. The same sort of egalitarian/collectivist ideologues that so dominate and corrupt the Academic/Media complex in America, had to try to force theories of human interchangeability & social uniformity on the various members. Their fanatical approach has forced disastrous immigration policies; and interfered with the different nations' perceptions of proper sex roles, ethnic identification & other social institutions, developed over many generations.

What is strange is only that it has taken this long for so many to fight back.

America is suffering from the same cancer as the EU--indeed, it was the American Left that pushed the creation of the EU in the aftermath of World War II. And it is the same collection of Leftist Ideologues in America, which has undermined--deliberately undermined--our sense of an American identity, and the desire to maintain an American identity in any form that the Founders would recognize. (See Norman Cousins & Surrender By Subterfuge.)

All decent people want a peaceful world--although we are likely never to achieve it. But the idea of destroying the cultural achievements of the world's very, very diverse peoples, in pursuit of the fantasy of human equality, is no step in any acceptable direction. None!

William Flax

“The EU was not content to be a free trading, monetary & economic confederation.”

I don’t think we should assume that these are anti-EU movements. In the case of Scotland, they are looking towards the EU not away from it. Venice is reflecting an age old scism in the politics of the Italian penninsula.

“Their fanatical approach has..interfered with the different nations’ perceptions of proper sex roles, ethnic identification & other social institutions, developed over many generations.”

Socialist silliness was entrenched in Europe long before the EU. These are not American-style conservatives clamoring for a return to traditional values.

“...it was the American Left that pushed the creation of the EU in the aftermath of World War II.”

In point of fact, Republicans supported it as well - as a way to prevent yet another Europe-wide war.

Your final paragraph is spot-on, however.