The European Union governing apparatus is anti-democratic, even though it looks like democracy on the surface.
The only thing saving Europeans from soft despotism is that this proto-dictatorship is built on the existing structures of national democracies. That real democracy limits the impact of the Brussels-based proto-empire.
But as power at the national level erodes under constant assault from the new center as it binds citizenry in regulations that come from the center in every aspect of their lives, that block to the EU's descent into a dictatorship will be removed. And if it becomes a soft dictatorship of paternalistic socialism, will it really be a great leap to pull on the jack boots?
It should not be our policy to encourage the EU as a political organization. Clearly, we have not stayed long enough after World War II to entrench democracy.
Good grief, will we and the Russians one day fight the European Union if it becomes such a monster?
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
