(October 15, 2015 at 8:28 am)Dystopia Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 8:14 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The sooner Europe is one political entity the better as far as I'm concerned. The petty nationalism I see in my country is galling in the extreme to one who does not agree with the jingoism that seems to pervades facebook these days. The amount of hateful right wing propaganda I see all the time from people I thought were reasonable humans is getting me down.
Some of the comments are geting distinctly "third Reichy" and it seems to be getting worse every day.
The better for Germans, French and English, not for poor and weaker nations - Most countries never agreed to this and didn't know the drawbacks, the people didn't vote explicitly knowing what they were getting into and even if they did I think circumstances have changed. Aside from the less important linguistic differences, the EU will never work as a federation for historical and political reasons - A German citizen is different from a British citizen and so on, each requires different measures and political legislation. There is no valid historical reason to create a federation despite the possible advantages
Since the EU has been founded how many wars have there been between the nation states? And as to the statement that Germans and Brits are different I think this is false, all people are basically the same, it is the artificial distinictions that people place on things that ruins the place. The needs of a German are no different from the needs of a Brit or a French person or a Slovakian. Europe could work as a federation why not we share common goals. we may not all speak the same language but that really is the only thing that separates us
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.