By David Rothkopf – Europe is a generalization. As recent events have demonstrated yet again, sharing a continent with someone doesn’t necessarily make you their countryman … or even capable of cooperating with them when it is in your mutual self-interest.
Europe’s success stories not only quash absurd assertions that having a state with a strong social safety net is the problem, they offer examples that might be well followed outside Europe; say, in the United States, home to another broken, corrupted version of capitalism.
The point is that some parts of Europe are not only working well, but can be examples worth emulating — both by the continent’s more reckless debtors and the United States itself. more> http://tinyurl.com/cf2en6o
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Europe is an outdated attempt at an empire, doomed on the strength of it.
Sovereignty must devolve to the smallest unit capable of it—and that unit be run by genuinely democratic methods (the Swiss model at least, but better is possible).
Self-interest is good, especially when survival is at stake.