Okay, we know that the US can’t be trusted because it’s political compass wil lalways be changing. So what now? We need to organize, but how? Volt Europa is pretty weak and several people I have met have expressed dislike for them, the EU is gonna be reactive instead of proactive towards threats as always, Elon is trying to buy out more parties in EU…
How to proceed? Anything to do that doesn’t seem hopeless, like voting for paneuropean parties, or leaving US based platforms for EU based, less developed platforms (like Peertube instead of Youtube, or Matrix instead of Whatsapp?
I wish EU was stronger and both the EU and its citizens (and netizens) les reliant on external services (like youtube, reddit, whatsapp, discord, etc.), and I want to do something about it, but I feel completely lost and hopeless.
Surveys pretty consistently show that European solidarity is very widely supported by a solid majority and the economic base of the EU is solid despite what some infinite growth pundits like to claim.
The main challenge will be get rid of our own home grown right-wing populists like Orban etc. and avoid getting divided over the support for Ukraine.
The US will be mainly occupied with itself in the coming years, and while we will certainly get to feel some negative fallout from that, it will primarily be a problem for US citizens and I really wish them all the best to get through this somehow.
Yeah the biggest threat are the same corrupt right wing forces in Europe (which are often funded by the US or other adversaries). They will try to chip away Europe’s unity and divide, which leaves everyone weaker in terms of bargaining power or otherwise. Britain already fell into this and they are almost certainly not going to be better off by themselves.
Europe should be concentrating on unity, but also economic and military strength.
corrupted traitors, which are mostly foreign subsidised and supported. Let’s not forget that important bit. If they weren’t, they probably wouldn’t never gotten that far, or so I think
Wealth disparity is the number one enemy of the modern world. Every millionaire with a net worth over X is a threat to democracy and actively reduces our chances of maintaining a democracy. I think I remembering hearing X being 10 million from a scientist researching this thing, but even if you bump it up to 20 or 50 million - still insane piles of wealth - removing the rest via taxation would change the world for the better overnight.
Break up monopolies and tax the rich out of existence, that should be the platform of every party, the single policy that we should strive to complete this year, before it’s too late. The US is what too late looks like, this is all a consequence of allowing the Uber wealthy to continuously drain the network of the bottom 99% of people.
@poVoq @Elrecoal19_0 that problem of populists is sadly more up to the member states. Seems that while pro-European sentiment does exist across all member states, it is not consistent. Hence why the populists keep getting in power in the first place.
And while most of the Europe is paying closer attention to the likes of Fico and Orban, it seems like it is overlooking the corruption and the captivity of the system by political forces that are also populist, but like to call themselves pro-European. Case in point: my country, Romania.
Here the so-called pro-European government (it doesn’t even contain all the pro-EU forces in the parliament, but I’ll get to that in a moment) is failing to implement vital reforms that have been asked for so long and even in the last minute, it is playing business as usual, like nothing seems to be happening. Well, something is happening, assholes: you’re burning down the very democratic system because of it. We literally got our elections canceled and while most of the people are basing this on Georgescu, not a single reason was officially provided for this.
Even the European Commission is canceling bilions upon bilions of Euros in post-covid resilience funds because they fail to address reforms of the public system, to make it less corrupt. And the said government is going like “well, yea, shit happens, we’ll just handle it”.
And from what I understood, the situation is somewhat similar in the neighboring Bulgaria: highly corrupt populist but pro-European political forces and politicians are holding power for a long time, hindering reforms, but the Brussels is not giving a damn because of their pro-European positions.
Do they not sense the danger in all of this? Do they not think that by not doing enough about these things, the EU will have a bad reputation among these countries citizens? I get that the membership question lies within the member states and it’s good to be like that. But I think the high-ranking officials in Brussels should be aware of this situation and send a message about it, rather than be complacent.