All of europe is suffering from the same, self inflicted disease of chosen socialism.
The communist power places have collapsed of their own weight, but the european countries have slid by, mostly because we have picked up their defense tab for the past 70 years, but those days are coming to an end.
Socialism removes God and Christianity, and Christianity is what fueled individualism and hope and creativity, like nothing else ever can (or will) since it is a Rational religion which is the only belief which gives dignity to all individuals, no matter how weak, useless or sick.
Socialism rots the Soul (Igor Shafarevich—The Socialist Phenomenon). It destroys Individualism. That destroys Identity and reduces everyone to interchangeable drones.
Socialism—as we see—destroys Reason and Logic—by pretending there is a “utopian” society on earth and pretending ALL human beings are exactly the same (why they are forcing little children to see images of two males “marrying” to destroy Reason and understanding of Natural Law and Chrisitianity)-—everyone has to conform. Mass conformity is the only system where a few elites can control the masses—all their ideas and all their allowed actions.
Inculcation of Sociailist ideology into children destroys critical thinking and Wisdom (discerning Good and Evil) because they are taught that emotions (base instincts) determine Good and Evil.
The Virtues-—Excellence-—are destroyed in children (All virtue is learned and habituated in childhood (Aristotle)-—and when Virtue is destroyed, then Excellence is destroyed-—the concepts which created the Enlightenment, Age of Reason and exceptional Art and Literature, Science.
Without God, everything is permissible (Dostoevsky) but laziness and the acceptance of mediocrity, sameness will be the norm since human nature-—as all history has proven, is wicked without Christian Worldview (which is antithetical to conformity.)
Christians can never be silent in the face of Evil. Most Europeans (and all European Laws) embrace evil and promote Vice (theft, sodomy) and eject Laws of Nature and Truth (God).
Nietzsche stated it as such in the 1800s: God is Dead. (In other Words, Christianity is being ejected from Europe and 2000 years of history and the Age of Reason, etc).
Evil always swallows up happiness and destroys hope, dignity and joy. It makes slaves of the Good and Virtuous and teaches the next generation that Christian ethics are evil, sexist, racist, etc-—to destroy all the concepts of Individual Natural Rights come from God.
Christianity combined Reason and Faith, which is the most perfect ideological system, which is the only one which gives individuals Freedom and Dignity to all people and doesn’t force conformity (destruction of Free Will (the Soul).