[Leifur]

I like this article and Paul´s general view on the world. One important thing thaugh to make clear, and I beliewe Paul, who loaths the EU as much as I agrees with me on this. That is this (what he talks about here) must be done by the individual nations, not through some kind of European Unionism.

The EU will allways be what it was founded to be, an undemocratic, elitist tool for those that hate the US and all what it stands for, and want to replace our old values and old nationalities with some kind of socialliberal European values and identity.

Iceland shall not join the EU, we must continue to be free.

[larryjohnson]

I wonder if I should send this to my Swedish cousins. Their grandparents stayed when their older siblings (including my grandmother) came to America about 1900.

[Tolik]

Interesting!

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[GOPJ]

Europe, however, is being overrun by barbarians. Its populations are dwindling, its welfare systems are collapsing and its old religion, Christianity, which the Europeans had cast aside, is being replaced by another one: Islam.

American elites who swoon at European sophistication need to wake up...

[expatpat]

Western culture is like the grapevine. Wine grapes were imported into the US from Italy and France. Later, a disease struck the vines in France, and grapevine cuttings were sent back to France from the US to restore the French wine industry. Another disease has struck France and its neighbors......

[tonycavanagh]

re :American society is a society whose culture and view of mankind resembles that of the old mediaeval Europe from which it organically evolved. It puts man before the state because it accepts that man should come to God as a free being.

And what about the serfs where did they come in.

LOL way to shoot your argument down.

I am always suspicious of those who try to romanticize the past

[freedom moose]

Europeans still tend to put the state before man,
Euro politicians sure do

still see the government as a god (a benefactor who feeds and supports his people),
True and very very sad

while the real God – He who wants people to come to Him freely because otherwise their “choice” for Him is no choice at all – has almost totally disappeared from present-day European society.
God is still strong in rural areas, big cities no. I wonder how different that is from places like the USA?
This article's generalization of Europe's view toward gov't is pretty accurate as far as what the usual lazy socialist idiot thinks. Luckily not everyone is like that. Hopefully for US freepers this won't become true about the USA anytime soon.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[Beckwith]

Who gives a rat's ass what Europeans think?

Europeans have always had a low opinion of America and Americans.

Except when they needed another bail-out.