Double post because looking through the ever-closer-integration-of-the-ever-closer-state I realize it truly is independence now or independence never. I might give a more detailed seriouspost later, but fucking hell, it's happening so quickly. 1985 a proposal is made to reduce border controls, 1990 a proposal is made to introduce a common visa to make travel function as a single state, 1999 the schengen agreement is incorporated into the Amsterdam treaty, in the current year it is now obligatory by law for any EU member states to destroy their own borders (except for Ireland and the UK, for now). That is why people were unironically proposing to "make a regime change" of Hungary, not because they weren't toleran and progresiv enough, but because they were posing a threat to the ever-closer-state.
And then look at how it was applied. No referendums, politicians in favour promised it was not about surrendering sovereignty but about business or post-colonialism, telling both left and right they should be in favour. Then it's signed through with not a single vote cast by referendum, as we've all learned by now the promise that powers are only taken by referendum from countries has never been true. And ffs Norway, people keep talking about Norway as they pay more despite being a non-member, that is because in spite of their country twice voting to stay out of the EU their government signed them up for the EEA and Schengen Area anyways, making them more integrated into the state than countries officially within despite their people voting against it.
I'm looking into how the common-exchange rates led to the common currency which robbed all national Parliaments (except the UK of course) of their ability to set their own budget and it's the same fucking thing again and again. Fucks sakes, the whole history of this all goes back to 70 years when a military union failed, 60 years ago when a political union failed - and then it was decided 50 years ago that Europe be united into one state via economics.
We've come 6 decades from people believing their leaders were signing a free trade deal to having their budgets decided by the Commission, their currency valuation decided by the Commission, their borders decided by the Commission, their law decided by the Commission, their leaders decided by the Commission, their education decided by the Commission, their public media decided by the Commission, their place in the WTO taken by the Commission, and most alarmingly the eurozone crisis brought a push for a fiscal policy set by the Commission, the EU is pushing for France and the UK to surrender their Security Council seats to the Commission, the EU is already consolidating its own military forces with EUFOR and naval exercises and is pushing for a single foreign policy for all European nation states with their High Representative for Foreign Policy.
This is it, this is the last chance we'll ever get, we're running out of things the Commission can take. Revolutions fail when reactionaries strike, but progressive change (not progresiv) raises the temperature until the frog boils, it's why the slippery slope is covered in lube. I'm not sure if I wanted this knowledge, I wish to return to the blissful ignorance, but I also do not. Now I know the stakes, it's now or I'm sending my CV off to the European Union.
All those countries destroyed by politicians signing their nations away without telling any of their people honestly what they were doing, not even trusting them to make the choice of selling out their country themselves... The promise made that all power surrendered would be done by choice of people, yet there was never a vote cast (or in Ireland's case, they just kept repeating referendums until the Irish voted "correctly.") This is why I stopped believing that the ministers in charge of ensuring Europe was incapable of handling the immigrant crisis (with some even bloody encouraging it) or the ministers who gave directives to cover up enriching crime were actively malevolent, not just incompetent. They speak out one end platitudes of giving them voices whilst giving them none, giving them no choices. And the stress of knowing we're running out of time...
BEWARE BOGO
IT IS NOW OR NEVER
JUNE OR DUNE LET'S FUCKING GET HYPE GET HOPE THURSDAY IS THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGES PRAISE THOR
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