All over Europe, elections are teaching Brussels that Greeks like being Greek, Brits Brit, and French French.  Nobody much cottons to being "European," where some Belgian bureaucrat says what you will and won't do in your small town where another language is spoken and people don't like paying huge salaries to self-important nobodies in gray flannel suits. The population of Europe is discovering that it really doesn't like the creeping socialism of the European Union, though many probably don't even realize that that's what they're mad about.  It isn't even full-blown socialism yet, but everybody knows that's the destination, and the shine has worn off.  Happens every time on the long and winding road to socialism. Some insightful sage noted that you can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out.  That's what waits at the end of the road Europe is...(Read Full Post)