thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 @thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 - 9d
From the perspective of an American, the EU seems to be a terrible idea for most countries involved. Why would you give up your autonomy and economic power to un-elected politicians that can overturn your national priorities?
lol no it's not 🤣
U.S. states are integral parts of a single nation with shared sovereignty. Our language, history, culture and tradition are highly integrated and emerged over a fairly short period of time. The idea of taking an existing nation and making a supercedeing nation state on top seems like a massive forfeit of sovereign power.
The original colonies weren't national states. More like city states with slightly different rules and cultural values.
Little things like our Electoral College ensures that even the smallest states priorities must be considered by Presidential candidates. But this also tends to collapse into a 2 party system as well so there are tradeoffs.
