Posted on 05/05/2013 8:55:33 AM PDT by Leifur
Iceland may be a small country but the people of iceland’s refusal to let a few much larger European states make Iceland pay for their poor choices is admirable, especially when you also had to stand up to your own government to do so.
Maybe some other European people will take note and take responsibility for their own decisions also.
Thank you! Sadly I am afraid that those other countries don´t have that constitutional safety button we had, and a favorible (and a bit megalomaniac) president to push it.
And that is on top of how thoroughly the EU has managed to undermine democracy in its member countries, and sap people´s will to try to influence politics in a system where their vote matters next to nothing. I agree with you, hopefully they will, but instead of taking responsibility they are more and more getting disilusioned with politics and letting the elites control more and more.
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