[Cicero]

Most Americans admire what Europe used to stand for--the Graeco-Roman classical tradition, the rise of Christian culture, inventiveness, individuality, love of freedom.

The problem is that ever since about 1914 the Europeans have simply turned their backs on their own heritage. It's only too obvious that Europe is committing racial and cultural suicide. If they don't straighten up very smartly, there will be no Europe in a hundred years.

[swilhelm73]

Well, actually its really only the British that have this sort of tradition.

The ideas of freedom and democracy have always been very weak in most of Europe. After all, the people interested in them primarily moved here.

We had to force democracy and freedom on the Germans and Italians, and Spain's democracy is only a few decades old. France, one of the continent's oldest democracies, willingly dumped democracy for fascism at the drop of a hat.

The Europeans are just reverting to authoritarian form. The EU is the mechanism to end democracy over the long term. The system will become a varient of fascism in time, though no one will call it that.

I should clarify here, I do not use the term facism as the Euros do, to mean something I don't like, but as in embodying the corporatist, anti-democratic policies that define what fascism is.

[WOSG]

The problem is that ever since about 1914 the Europeans have simply turned their backs on their own heritage. It's only too obvious that Europe is committing racial and cultural suicide. If they don't straighten up very smartly, there will be no Europe in a hundred years.

Right! The question isnt really "why do they hate us?" It is: "Why do they hate themselves and what they as a culture used to stand for?"

I believe it about the politics of left gaining supremacy and destroying the host that leftist parasitism attached itself to. The anti-Americanism is just a symptom of the opverall Euroepan disease.