COMMENT:
“When males can hate with out threat, their stupidity is definitely satisfied, the motives provide themselves.”
–Louis-Ferdinand Celine
AF
REPLY: That’s on level Allen. These European leaders live prior to now. Their historical past of earlier imperial greatness has grow to be the core a part of a their view of their nation’s story about itself—a “golden age.” It’s a supply of immense cultural satisfaction, creative achievement, and historic identification. Reconnecting with that previous is seen as therapeutic. The institution of the EU was alleged to defeat the greenback. That failed. Their claims {that a} mixed GDP would exceed the US by no means materialized as a result of they’re socialists and needed to management all the things. Their perceived nationwide greatness failed earlier than their eyes and battle is now the duvet up for a humiliating interval of decline.
