You are right, it is painful to watch a nation, a proud former empire implode, and, by choice.
It would seem that Europeans prefer the (what Professor Victor Hanson calls), “Latte generation” which means that as long as they can go about their daily, secular, materialistic lives and sip latte in the Coffee houses, all is well.
Just over their reading glasses, just over their cellphones lurks a violent Jihadi ideology about to burst forth from their Trojan Horse.
If Germany re-elects Merkel then it will be the beginning of the end for sure. If, however they oust her in the next elections, there is hope...
“It would seem that Europeans prefer the (what Professor Victor Hanson calls), “Latte generation” which means that as long as they can go about their daily, secular, materialistic lives and sip latte in the Coffee houses, all is well.”
This characterization captures it exceptionally well, and the ‘latte generation’ is ubiquitous in Europe and the US. Part of the problem is our educational systems that instead of opening minds actually seem to put a cataract on the ability to see reality.
You're a prophet?