A Fairly Open Response to ‘An Open Letter to Europe’

I thoroughly enjoyed Drew Allen’s “Open Letter to Europe” in The American Spectator. I am not “Europe.” I am a tiny part of Europe. Although with all the weight I’ve gained this Christmas, I am now a slightly larger part. Large enough to respond to Allen’s kind correspondence. At least the extra weight has served some purpose, aside from causing a terrible back strain from attempting some strange strength exercise suggested by ChatGPT — probably designed by ISIS. (RELATED: An Open Letter to Europe)

Back to Allen. I deeply envy your first work experience in Italy. Rome, Tuscany, Florence — anywhere in Italy represents, for me, an eternal dream destination. High on my list of things I hate not having accomplished yet are, on the one hand, moving to Italy, and on the other hand, going on a romantic date with Sydney Sweeney. Not necessarily in that order. I also toy with the idea of doing both at the same time — moving to Italy with Sydney Sweeney — but as a good Christian, I understand that at my age, Heaven will have to wait. (RELATED: The Incomprehensible Failure of My Attempts to Woo Sydney Sweeney)

However, I want to tell you something. Italy, like my country, Spain, is something of a paradise within Europe. But Europe also has its hell, whose epicenter oscillates between Germany and Brussels. It is there that all the evils plaguing the EU today originate — France included, of course. I hardly need to tell you that 90 percent of the most pernicious, violent, and stupid ideas of the last few centuries originated in France. Sometimes, when I see Macron wearing Hells Angels-style sunglasses, I think that when the French began cutting off heads, they consciously agreed to decapitate all the intelligent people in their country. They didn’t leave a single one. The heirs of the executioners haven’t improved things. The last intelligent Frenchman is Michel Houellebecq. I suppose that’s why they’re always trying to assassinate him. (RELATED: The Art of Being an Idiot)

There is a factor you don’t mention in your letter, yet it is often more illuminating than a simple ideological battle: the origin of the current pro-China and anti-American stance among Europe’s political elites is not explained by ideology or geopolitics, but by corruption. China has infiltrated the elites in Brussels across all parties, with the exception — at least for now — of the new right. Giant Chinese corporations, for example, employ the children of some leaders of the European People’s Party, that immense political fraud masquerading as conservative — a kind of posthumous tribute to wokism. As always, they’re late to the party, and now they’re becoming “woke” just as even the left has abandoned that madness. Meanwhile, Beijing-funded think tanks pay substantial sums to socialist and social democratic leaders. They are all bound by the sickle — which they have never actually held — and the hammer, which terrifies them.

Trump is right when he shouts in Europe’s face, “Aren’t you surprised that the Chinese manufacture so many wind turbines and sell them, but never install them in their own country?” Although Trump is also being naïve about this. The real reason the European Green Deal and all that garbage have triumphed among the elites is corruption, not conviction. Corrupt people never reason from rhetorical questions. (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is)

Nevertheless, Drew, there is light at the end of the tunnel. As I wrote here a few days ago, the EU no longer exists as such. My thesis is that we live in post-European times — not in the sense that the continent has ceased to exist, but in terms of the EU, which today is nothing more than ash and scorched earth. Corruption, stupidity, and above all, the arrogance of figures like von der Leyen have brought the edifice down. It was an easy structure to tear down. The Europe you and I know will never fall. The Europe of Notre Dame, the Colosseum, Don Quixote, and the Sistine Chapel is founded on Greece, Rome, and Christianity. The EU, by contrast, through the efforts of left-wing political elites and cowardly center-right politicians, was constitutionally founded by erasing all traces of Christianity and renouncing its heritage. In other words, it was built on feet of clay. Its downfall only surprises the idiots who promoted that Masonic constitution in the French style. (RELATED: Thank You, Trump, for Reminding Europe’s Leaders How Utterly Stupid They Are)

The EU has always been a chimera, a construct that seems designed by sociologists or social engineers, and it will never be real. The European Economic Community had its purpose; the EU has lost it. Europe does not exist. What exists are strong nations of precious diversity that manage to agree on a series of things, building on their shared cultural heritage. Everything else is smoke.

And what is the great light? The greatest reason for hope is that the traditional parties — social democracy and Christian democracy — are in decline. Across Europe, a network of patriotic, conservative, unapologetically right-wing parties is growing, fully aware of the importance of national sovereignty, the fight against communism, and the Atlantic alliance that enriches the West.

These new right-wing parties are not yet winning elections in every country, partly because the left and the center-right, backed by their legion of bureaucrats, maneuver like desperate, dying men to exclude them, unite against them, or even attempt to declare them unconstitutional. But it doesn’t matter. Change is unstoppable in the streets. And it will be good for Europe. And it will be good for the West. And, of course, it will be good for the United States.

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