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On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied (or words to that effect). “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.”
American conservatives have struggled to press President Obama’s policies into a meaningful narrative. Is he a socialist? Not exactly, at least not in the traditional sense of wanting the state to own key industries. Is he, as Dinesh D’Souza argues, actuated by the 1950s anticolonialism of his absent, but idealized, father? Perhaps, but in domestic terms, this doesn’t take us very far. Is he then a straightforward New Deal big spender, in the model of FDR and LBJ? Up to a point.
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I don’t doubt the sincerity of those Americans who want to copy the European model. A few may be snobs who wear their Euro-enthusiasm as a badge of sophistication. But most genuinely believe that making their country less American, more like the rest of the world, would make it more comfortable and peaceable. All right, growth would be slower, but the quality of life might improve. All right, taxes would be higher, but workers need no longer fear sickness or unemployment. All right, the U.S. would no longer be the world’s superpower, but perhaps that would make it more popular. Is a European future truly so terrible?
Yes. Take it from me, my friends. I have been an elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for 11 years. I have seen firsthand what the European political model means. I inhabit your future – or at least the future toward which your current rulers seem intent on taking you. Before you follow us, let me tell you a few things about it.
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