Maggie's Farm

Culturally, religiously, genetically, and economically, we Americans feel most connected to Europe, and to the Anglosphere. It's only natural, but it isn't necessarily for the best.

In the US, our interest and attention has quickly moved to India, China, and to the east in general. You are being left behind by the movement of history, but there is no-one to blame but yourselves that India is more friendly to business growth, innovation, jobs and creativity. More friendly to the future and more committed to the Work Ethic.

But at Maggie's Farm, we are deeply concerned about the direction being taken by our European cousins. And not because of any self-interest - it is purely an emotional and nostalgic family matter to us. When one watches a close family member heading for disaster, it is impossible to be indifferent or to remain silent. All we can do is to talk to you with love and concern.

We are concerned with your judgement and prudence:

You have taken sanctimonious, pseudo-neo-Maoist Political Correctness to a self-satirical and suicidal extent.

You have regulated your businesses to the point of suffocation.

You have taken moral equivalency to the point of endorsing moral nihilism.

You have endorsed masochistic pacifism -  a self-destructive pacifism, since the "Better Red than Dead" days, (if not before).

Your loony do-gooders are destroying your noble and historic culture and traditions.

You are abandoning the idea of "family" by letting "the State" become the surrogate parent, and getting comfortable with people becoming children, as in feudalism.

You don't have three or four children because you cannot afford them, or because you have no confidence in your future, or because you are self-obsessed - and your native population is declining.

Your antiquated, dusty socialist and "third-way" Nanny State notions destroy entrepreneurialism, growth, energy, and a can-do attitude, and reward sloth, lethargy, discouragement, "working the system", dependency, excuse-based values, and hedonism.

Your taxes tax the human spirit, discourage effort, defeat invention, and drive business, and work, away to more friendly climates.

Your tax-supported subsidies support long-dead industries and businesses and their parastic unions, like brain-dead bodies on life-support - and thus drain capital from new vibrant enterprises.

You welcome too many immigrants from alien cultures because you have no confidence or pride in your own. Sure, permit limited immigration, but not invasion or you won't have your country anymore.

You reward the sociopathic and weak, and seem to resent and punish your achievers.

You deprive your people of arms, and welcome murderous invaders. Can it be true that you are not allowed to shoot intruders in your home? That is nuts. Why not simply castrate your men at birth, if you don't want your men to protect and preserve their families. Call a copper? Please!

Your antipathy for religion (unless it's the religion of others) has left you with a spiritual and moral emptiness - a vacuum -  to be filled with...what? What sacred values? Is there nothing you believe worth dying for? You are better than that!

Your losses of your Empires has left you with no easy source of national pride and seemingly with no avenue for adventure and energy and heroism, and with multiple avenues for exhaustion and defeat and dependency - and ultimately moral, economic, cultural, and spiritual poverty.

And you don't listen to enough Country Music.

This is the definition of cultural decadence.

You are heading in a direction which will lead you to becoming a minor backwater of the world - self-preoccupied, comfort-obsessed, culture-less, childless, economically pathetic and, ultimately, a Disney-type travel destination into past history (like a San Gimignano run by Moslems) living on long-past glory like beggars, instead of a growing, energetic, inspiring and vital part of the planet which is grounded in a profoundly important heritage of freedom and thought and energy and pride. You chose a false security over vitality, and that will never work out in the long run. You have given up too much, and replaced it with a big nothing. Or with an illusion of comfort and ease, like spoiled children. That is not what man was made for, and it is not mature and not manly and not noble.

And what is this EU nonsense? An endless source of rules produced by a million un-elected bureacrats who only want you to be "better"? What? You need that? You want that? The EU is nothing but a multi-billion-dollar bitch of a Kindergarten teacher, and not one of them has more sense than the average Brit tradesman or French artichoke farmer or German banker. Less - or those over-educated bureaucrats would have real productive jobs in the real world.

It is painful to the millions of Americans of European heritage to watch this happening before our eyes. It feels, to us in the US, like having a suicidal child - or even worse - a suicidal parent.

Well, it's your life and these are your countries, and you will do what you want, even if it is destruction of spirit and history and future. But we have to, at least, speak out about it. This is a battle of spirit and soul and heart and cultural confidence - a battle without armies, from which the USA cannot and will not rescue you, because the damage is self-inflicted.

The rest of this big world is going to "eat your lunch" culturally, economically, and in every other way - without a single shot being fired (deGaulle, Churchill, and Eisenhower are weeping in their graves), unless you pull up your socks and get with reality - fast.

Your friends and relatives in the US pray that you will.

(Yes, that is Winchester Cathedral.)