I didn’t see this yesterday and I’m glad first off that this brilliant, concise piece has opened up FR to original conservative thought. It’s hardly vanity to explain, ponder, or dissect the world according to our view. I hope to be able to attempt one day to follow in your footsteps.
Second, how right you are about Europe. The decade I spent there was a “soft” one as you describe. With so many weeks of paid vacation and 90% of your salary in unemployment, everyone was living easy.
Now they are all discovering like the grasshopper that they haven’t prepared for the time when the bills came due. They are suicidally politically correct to their growing Muslim populations.
And while they dance in the streets after electing a socialiste in France, there must be some concern about where all this pretty money is going to come from, right? They can’t possibly be as immature as my kids when they think that if you need money, you go to the ATM and money will come out. Can they be?
Thank you, kind sir, for your comments.... but most of all, thanks for confirming my thoughts about Europe!