Neo-liberalism, Khaler, is not the same as other kinds of liberalism - neo-liberalism is a combination of certain core liberal principles with neo-classical economics, with an understanding of the individual as a rational and utility maximising actor, and freedom as the freedom to participate or have an opportunity to participate in free markets (by which they mean, markets unburdened by direct government intervention, but regulated and constrained by an extensive legal framework). Neo-liberalism doesn't work, although Amazeroth would argue differently, he is a fan of the Austrian School. I think you may be confusing the meaning of the word with the incorrect American usage, they generally mean 'left-wing' when they say liberal.
Khaler wrote:Funny that you mentioned America, as far as I know, they are not from the same ethnicity, are they? Dutch, Germans, Britons, Irish, Italians, Africans... And Canada has those frenchies too.
So what? No one is suggesting that Britain unite with the United States, and yet they are suggesting that Britain unite with the myriad of different nations and cultures on the continent. It's taken three centuries of centralisation and cultural homogenisation to make the United States a country, just like Napoleon did with France. A single European state will either see the complete destruction of the nations and cultures that make it up, or its own collapse.
Khaler wrote:And yes, European Countries should form a federation, or a country, as it is the only logical way to preserve the Western and European haegemony around the world.
It's the logical way to create a huge mess, much worse than the one we've got now. You stick to learning useless foreign languages, we'll stick to politics eh?
Anyway, despite the vast number of rational arguments against the EU, which I've argued here since I joined and am rather sick of arguing, we aren't going to agree. I am opposed to what the EU is and what it represents, a grandiose, rationalistic political project to create an artificial state, in which only we as individuals and our nations are going to suffer. It's a folly, it ignores centuries of political, social, and cultural development and it is a foreign imposition. Very little good has come of it, and I cannot see more in the future. I'm certainly going to fuck off to Canada if Britain ever becomes the same country as France, or Finland, or Slovakia (a rat deserting a sinking ship, maybe).