The fatal flaw of the European Union has been its leaders’ assumption that human beings and nations can be regulated and managed as easily and thoroughly as cabbages are grown, bought and sold. Reductionism is always the Achilles heel of ideological zealots, who in the case of Brussels’ bureaucrats, are committed to a solely materialist view of humanity and nations.  We have seen the “successes” of the materialist view of humanity and nations in the past, most notably in the form of communist ideology, which purportedly would end all class structures and therefore all wars, as class struggle due to economic inequality was the chief cause of violence.  End the class system and establish equality, especially economic equality, and peace would ensue.  The ideology behind the EU is also materialist in nature, and therefore very similar to that of communist and socialist beliefs.  “Equality” is the goal, with the accompanying...(Read Full Article)