(March 25, 2013 at 3:27 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: fascism rears its ugly head whether you acknowledge it or not.
ever increasing central government control is fascism
Naaaa actualy not.
Fascism has a very specific definition.
For example Italy under Mussolini had a central goverment.
ascist Germany did not, it parted the various German states into so called "Gaus" which were then administered individualy, yet under nazi law.
Central goverments are more a think of the soviet union and left wing goverments in democracies.
Anyway, the EU is not a centralist goverment because all sovereign decision lie with the individual nations within the EU, foreign policie, law, social programs, regulations, deregulation, federalism, decentralisation, inferstructure .... all of these are administered by the individual nations and differently.
France has a centralised system in which the states have hardly any power - Germany has a decentralised system in which the goverment in Berlin cannot do anything without the consent of the states.
All nations within the EU act individualy, mainly because the EU is primarily a free trade zone between the states.
Now, do you have any actual arguments to bring forth?
And if yyes, open a new thread.