Ifreann wrote:Latvijas Otra Republika wrote:Europe is not a monolith, it never was.
Nothing ever was until the first time it is.It’s not a continent of a singular assimilated language, culture or ethnicity.
None of the countries within Europe, except maybe the microstates, are monoliths of a single language, culture, or ethnicity. And even if they were right now, that would eventually change, as languages, culture, and ethnicities always do.The reigns of power would be placed in the West, all power wielded would be by the Germans or the French. The end result would be massacre and war.
I don't see why a united Europe would have to work like that.Handing over power to an elite in Brussels brings no human benefit,
Is the problem that the elites with power over us are in Brussels and not some other city? Or that there are elites with power over us at all?European politicians leave their national/regional positions after a scandal or not enough pay to go work there. Whole thing is meant to make a quick buck and rub shoulders with other EU coffee makers.
Yes, many governments are corrupt. It's something we should really get a handle on.The Islands of Versilia wrote:
What people? All Europeans should be treated equally.
You tell me what people you are excluding when you talk about specific cultures being treated equally and properly.Monarchs are unifying figures that work best with parliamentary systems of government and can use their royal powers to dismiss elected figures that are threatening to the democratic institutions of a united Europe. Monarchs should be protectors of democracy when the people are too charmed to realise their mistake.
Monarchs are embodiments of inequality that serve to highlight that some in the nation are born with incredible advantages and some are born with nothing. What use to a nation is a bejewelled crown when its people are hungry?
It’s been tried over and over again, as far as Teutoburg and the most recent Lebensraum. It’s satisfying knowing each time sovereignty and freedom has triumphed in the face of inescapable odds. That all people may live their lives not by the rules of those who have more wealth or a ‘better culture’.
The narrative that ethnic and cultural ‘change is inevitable’ is not so profound, Indo-European languages still hold on to their original words and cultures and languages have barley shifted from 1700s. If you want Europe to be a mixed Americanized vomit bucket then by all means hold on to that view, Though I rather enjoy traveling Poland and Germany and seeing the changes from place to place. While China has Mandarin and America has American, Europe dose not have a European and won’t have a European.
On what planet do you live on where Germany and France, probably the largest exporters and economies of Europe, with the most expenditure and population and economic centers, wouldn’t control Europe. They formed the EU from the start, to think somehow a federal state wouldn’t be just France and Germany bumming everyone else- that’s a bit mad.