If the real Europe wants to be free again, then Brussels with its monstrous, soul-killing and money-laundering bureaucracy must die. But Europeans are besides lazy to do so – and that is why they let totalitarianism to regulation them.
Last week, at an event in the European Parliament, 1 associate of the European Parliament asked me a question that I frequently hear: "Does J.D. Vance hatred Europe?". I say he does not hatred Europe, where the head of the calf is served in the Rive Gauche restaurant in Paris, where Sunday Mass is celebrated at the Cathedral of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Milan, where you can admire the alpine lakes in Switzerland and where you can admire the magnificent paintings in Alte Pinakothek in Munich. He hates Brussels itself, or alternatively Brussels, as a symbol of an official, bureaucratic Europe and the ruling dictatorship of executive liberalism. It hates Europe with its European Commission decrees, with its Digital Services Act limiting EU citizens' access to cognition and information, and besides hates the ruling class of the EU that refuses to recognise and face the frightening problem of mass migration.
In this sense Vance stands by most of my conservative European friends, for whom "Brussels" is simply a symbol of a circumstantial globalist Mordor. My visit to Parliament last week was the first and I came out with a much better knowing of why so many European Conservatives hatred it. The strangest thing is how actively and zealously the people leading the parliament defend its existence. Everywhere you look, you see visual calls for action on the EU's priority, as well as a reminder that what is happening inside the building is simply a good thing. I have been in the parliaments of many European countries, but no of them have twisted their hands to the visitors, urging them to approve of his mission and existence.
In the square other the entrance to the building is simply a photographic point, set so that friends can take pictures of young Europeans on Instagram, in an act of European patriotism. "Democracy in Action" says the inscription on the frame behind which you gotta stand. A friend of mine pointed me to a selfie and said, “It’s so orwellish.” “Democracy in Action” takes place in this building last.
One Englishman in our group pointed out that the seats of parliamentarians in the Legislative Chamber are set in a semi-circle, unlike the British Parliament, where opposing parties sit face to face: “The point is to scope consensus. And the consensus is always that everything the European Commission wants should be approved."
Throughout the morning I have spent there, I have heard the same basic story: that the European Parliament is simply a large and very costly (over 2 billion euros a year) facade of democracy, covering the transnational autocracy of the European Commission.
Rod Dreher
There is simply a concept of Kinsley's "mistakes" in authoritative Washington – it is that the politician inadvertently tells the fact and reveals what he did not intend to report. The erstwhile European Commissioner Thierry Breton made a mistake erstwhile he said on French tv at the beginning of that year that if German voters made a mistake and voted for an alternate for Germany (AfD), Brussels will correct it, as it had done earlier in Romania erstwhile voters voted for a populist candidate, undesirable by the European establishment.
The EU Czar censorship Breton simply said a loud secret: “Brussels is theoretically governed by liberal democrats, but if it has to choose between liberalism and democracy, it will always stand on the side of liberalism to save people from themselves.”
"If it is not a democratic body and it draws so much taxation money from European citizens, why do Europeans inactive vote for it?" The answers were different, depending on who I was talking to, but they came down to 1 thing: due to the fact that nobody knows what they're doing, and everyone cares so much about him that they don't want to protest. “This is the difference between Europeans and Americans,” 1 of my guides told me. "In Europe we see this or that problem, but we will sit passively in front of it, not wanting to do anything. You Americans are usually ready to take action to remedy this situation."
This morning I gave a brief speech on how crucial it is for democracy to fight for freedom of speech and against the burdensome restrictions on freedom in Brussels. I later learned that the centre-right block of the European People's organization was initially 1 of the sponsors of the event I spoke on, but at the last minute he withdrew his support due to the fact that of... me.
One analyst of the European People's organization has stated that I am critical of sex ideology and attempts to redefine the word "family" to advance LGBT rights. This upset organization activists who wanted nothing to do with my alleged intolerance. I have learned that 1 of the representatives of this party, founded by the chadeks, told the organizers of the event that many of its members agree with my positions, but the impression of connections with me would be wrong.
What courage! Then, speaking to parliamentarians, I quoted the words erstwhile spoken to me by manager Kamila Bendowa. She and her late husband Wacław were the only Christians in the leadership of the Movement Charter 77, which resisted communism. In 2019, erstwhile I was preparing to compose the book "Living Not by Lies", I asked this erstwhile dissident whether it was hard for them, Catholics and Conservatives, to work with unbelievers and left-wingers under Charter 77.
Not at all! "When totalitarianism is fought, the most crucial feature to look for in allies is courage." Most of their fellow Catholics hid their beliefs to avoid disputes and scandals. She and her husband were certain they couldn't keep quiet. They so formed an alliance with the Czechs, who did not share their religion and political conservatism, but were willing to stand up with them against the dictatorship.
Last week in Brussels, the block of the Patriots of Europe spoke about the fact that the European People's organization ignored the conference due to the disgusting presence of a author and writer who dares to talk out about conventional Christian values. “Please don’t tell Thierry Breton about this,” he said.
I spoke in the courts of the European Parliament with an old German friend from the CDU asking her: “Two years ago, you warned me that AfD was bad and that I should stay distant from them. Do you inactive think so?
– Not at all – she replied. "There are forces in AfD that I do not like, but the crisis in Germany is now so terrible that the only hope in politics is AfD".
In another conversation 1 of the believing Catholics pointed to a beautiful old Catholic church in the centre of Brussels and said that he went to mass there. – There is simply a devout priest there – said the man – but only a fistful of old people go to church. We walked around the city centre along the majestic Grand Square with baroque buildings that made Europe famous. It was hard not to announcement the immense number of women wearing hijabs. There are no precise statistic on the size of the Muslim population in Brussels, but according to the most reliable estimates it is about 25%. This erstwhile Catholic city will surely belong to them someday.
The taxi driver who drove me to the airport was a Pakistani immigrant. Having noted that propaganda posters were put up throughout the European capital in honor of the LGBT Month, I told this man, who was seemingly Muslim, that it is hard to be believers in this country.
— Yes, sir, he answered modestly. "They start with sex ideology erstwhile children are very small. My daughters came home from school and told me how the teacher told them they could be boys. My wife said no, God made you girls. Children wanted to argue with her.”
"And schools keep an eye on their parents," he continued. erstwhile we go to compulsory parent meetings with teachers, they want to know if we as parents support transgendering. He is ashamed to admit it, but my wife and I lied and said that we support it.”
“But why?” I asked. "Because we already have a sad experience in our community erstwhile you took your children distant from your parents due to this". “This is totalitarianism!”
– Yes, sir.
This is precisely the kind of totalitarianism that Brussels, or authoritative Europe, needs. In May, the president of the European Commission posted a video on the social network promising to proceed the fight for a Europe where you can be who you are.
Be arrogant of who you are!
I'm arrogant to be on the side of the LGBTQ+ community.
If you are a conventional Christian, a social conservative, a nationalist, a supporter of sovereignty, a mom or a dad who do not want their children to learn in schools that they may be of the other sex, then by entering the building of the European Parliament, you will feel like a alien in a abroad country. But this is how many Europeans across the continent feel, seeing that their countries are inactive engulfed in mass migration, while their leaders at national and European level are inactive idle. "Democracy in Action"? Of course, individual who leaves the dreary capital of Europe understands perfectly why, erstwhile voters in a European country choose a candidate who threatens to derail a European project, Breton's supporters in Brussels are more than happy to fire people and choose another candidate.
Brussels seems to be a successful symbol of Europe's crisis. She is broken, struck by a virus of voceism, paralyzed politically, imlamized, lost in the Christian faith, full of empty slogans about her utopian dreams, in which very fewer believe, apart from the ruling class, her servants and janchares.
If Europe – a actual Europe – wants to be free again, Brussels with its monstrous, killing soul, wasting money on bureaucracy must die. Unfortunately, Eurocracy is the only surviving organism in Belgium that is not euthanized.
But the beer in this town is inactive delicious. Just like that. The empire comes and goes, but the gold “Tripel Carmelite” is eternal.
Rod Dreher
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Rod Dreher is an American, columnist and elder student at the Danube Institute in Budapest. It runs a regular newsletter: roddreher.substack.com.
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