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You can say it but nobody listens. For years now, the people who tried to say that the EU in its current form is not working have been silenced by the media or
by rdm_blackhole 3y ago
You can say it but nobody listens.
For years now, the people who tried to say that the EU in its current form is not working have been silenced by the media or labelled as conspiracy nuts.
- g-b-r 3y agoThe problem is that the wide majority of them were (and still are) conspiracy nuts
- petre 3y agoOr Russia's useful idiots.
- omginternets 3y agoWhen the majority of a country votes against the EU constitution in a public referendum, "conspiracy nut" is a very tough sell.
- rdm_blackhole 3y agoMaybe so but it wouldn't be the case if the other parties did their job and denounced the abuses from the EU when those happen. Instead, it leaves the parties on the fringe as the only ones doing the criticizing. Why should it be controversial to say that the EU is not perfect and that leaving it could work out better for certain countries? Instead it's like no one can imagine a time where the EU did not exist and it's almost like we have forgotten that the EU is not the end all be all of everything.
- g-b-r 3y agoThe parties on the fringe usually criticize bs rather than the real problems, because they at most don't care of improving the EU. In the best case when it doesn't work well it's a convenient target to blame (when it's their own fault). In other cases they'd like the freedom to be *more* (much more) authoritarian than EU membership allows. But currently let's be honest, most simply work for Putin or China and the aim is just to wreak havoc.
- g-b-r 3y agoBut yes for sure there should be other parties, or/and the tiny ones that do a great job on internet matters such as the pirate party should get a lot more votes.
- omginternets 3y agoAh yes, the classic "you voted wrong; try again" posture.