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European intellectuals warn of "wreckers" out to destroy fuzzy puppies, bunnies
**Wreckers**? What the HELL? Haven't heard that word in forever. That's right out of the Soviet playbook."Enough of ’building Europe’!" is the cry. Let’s reconnect instead with our "national soul"! Let’s rediscover our "lost identity"! This is the agenda shared by the populist forces washing over the continent. Never mind that abstractions such as "soul" and "identity" often exist only in the imagination of demagogues. You heard it here folks: they think people don't have soul or identiy. Europe is being attacked by false prophets who are drunk on resentment, and delirious at their opportunity to seize the limelight. It has been abandoned by the two great allies who in the previous century twice saved it from suicide; one across the Channel and the other across the Atlantic. The continent is vulnerable to the increasingly brazen meddling by the occupant of the Kremlin. Europe as an idea is falling apart before our eyes. I bet you the writer as well as most of the people who read the article have attended more than one "FUCK YOU USA" protest. Now suddenly they want to come crying back for help. What kind of help do they want from the Americans, anyhow? I thought AmerKKKans were fascist bullies who need to keep the fuck out of Europe? We count ourselves among the European patriots (a group more numerous than is commonly thought, but that is often too quiet and too resigned), who understand what is at stake here. Three-quarters of a century after the defeat of fascism and 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is a new battle for civilisation. Once again, I can't help notice the hypocrisy of those who harshly condemned patriotism suddenly worshiping patriotism. According to them, how does where you were born have any influence? Patriotism is for idiots. Hence this exhortation to carry once more the torch of a Europe that, despite its mistakes, its lapses, and its occasional acts of cowardice, remains a beacon for every free man and woman on the planet. This could have been written by any American and been condemned as racist, jingoist claptrap that only a total moron could believe in. BUT, since we are evidently in Bizarro World, it's OK when they do it. It's just astounding that so many highly educated intellectuals have zero self-awareness and freely use the tools of the enemies they spent decades hating. Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-01-26 |
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