(Opening photo: Antti Aimo-Koivisto / AFP)
Marxism-Leninism, supported by the military power of the Soviet Union, proudly proclaimed that communism was the perfect system to which humanity was striving, and anyone who doubted this would be
they are discouraged by administrative means.
But they never announced that they had arrived at communism, the remaining long-term goal, because it is obvious that Canaan had not yet arrived. That’s why they tried to improve the system with a certain “I’m angry for you, not against you” attitude, so that when communism came, it would really be perfect.
The European Union has managed to transcend this principle, and according to Brussels bureaucrats there is nowhere to improve,
because if Euroscepticism rears its head somewhere (so the support of the alliance is not 100 percent), they immediately start shaking their heads or ringing the alarm bell. Most recently, the Austrian survey – according to which a quarter of the population in our western neighbor would leave – blew the fuse, and the reaction now (which also happened with the Rákosi’s) is not that “comrades, we will correct the mistakes if there are any”, but
it is stigmatized, dehumanized with various negative adjectives, and those who have doubts are beaten into the ground.
I don’t remember an answer such as “we examine other aspects”, “we build on the criticism”, “we modify this and that”, “we are patient with different views”. Instead, they ban events they don’t like, and make people, parties and peoples who have reservations look stupid. They never bother to think about it, or even formulate it as a footnote to the question,
I wonder why more and more people are disillusioned with the European project?
But they should at least listen and with a little empathic roar, count those who have been demoted to second-rate because they want a different kind of Europe (by the way, much more in line with the original ideas).
It never occurs to those who belong to the mainstream that they are doing something wrong, that something should be changed. However, if something goes wrong, it’s better to fix it first, because if we use a word of power to say that it’s good (“Orange. I don’t open a dispute”), it won’t work, and in the end the whole thing has to be thrown away. There was a good idea, let us Europeans get together, because – as Otto Habsburg put it –
there is much more that unites us than divides us.
An Austro-Hungarian Monarchy-like union in which from Lemberg to Trieste there are no borders, no customs, the same money, the same country, but more people. (And well, whatever we think of Ferenc Jóska, he is an Ursula von der Leyen compared to him…)
The initially good, loose cooperation (which seemed to be liked by almost everyone) started to be messed with, made tighter, and the rules, goals, and ideology changed. That’s why not everyone liked it
they started forcing those out of line.
(Let’s just say the English didn’t let up and silently beckoned. However, this did not encourage the lords of the rings to consider, be lenient, listen to the other, but instead chose open violence and retaliation. This usually works for a while, but when the pot is overturned, it is very falls over.)
We see that the Europe of our dreams no longer exists, and perhaps never will. The ideal Europe, the period of freedom and prosperity, happened without us and partly on our account. And these current limited ones still do not deal with the problem, but create it. In accordance with their infinitely exclusionary thinking, they consider the main problem to be the strengthening of the right wing.
