What I can't decide, are they fools or are they murderers. What do you think? Again, I like Merkel. But the EU was going on for a while before her, and it seems, it was forever on this "first, let's kill ourselves" agenda. Usually when you confront a fool, another fool does not rise to repeat the foolishness right away. In Europe, they do rise. Why?
Note that Germany might indeed have that WWII guilt, but every nation in the EU is doing it, except, of course, in the East/Central sanity core.
Well, there's always a reluctance - I've felt it, anyway - to overemphasize the sway of a ruling class in Europe in the interest of not appearing paranoid. But there does appear to be a weird institutional conviction that the New Europe will be super-nationalistic and that the means of effecting this is to invite a population of workers that does not share any current European national identity. Globalism, if you like, with a vengeance. And it may be that vision of a Greater New Europe carries with it first an assumption that the current national identification is to be obliterated forcefully, and second that the newcomers may be convinced to assimilate rather than conquer. These are very questionable assumptions, held with the apparent fervor of a cult, and the proponents appear to derive some sort of transcendental moral virtue out of rejecting their own country in favor of the common good, a form of suicidal broadmindedness if you like. All only my speculation, of course, but if this is indeed their ideological direction I seriously question their right or their ability to govern.