https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/04/threatened-by-populist-superpowers-europe-too-needs-a-dose-of-patriotism
di KorKhan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/04/threatened-by-populist-superpowers-europe-too-needs-a-dose-of-patriotism
di KorKhan
18 commenti
If it ever can emerge as a super power, it WILL be the first one to begin as a democracy (the sexist slave owning oligarchic shithole that America was before 1964 doesn’t count)
EU has always played by the rule book and taken the moral high ground. Russia and China never had. America is now doing the same. It’s become a very uneven playing field. EU has to fight low as sometimes the good guys don’t win
Europe is getting lots of doses of patriotism. It’s why the far right is surging in the polls all over Europe. If AfD gets a majority in next month’s Germany election, Trump will be the least of our worries.
No, we in Europe don’t need patriotism to fight anything. I love the people and give a shit about a country.
Patriotism is the first stage to nationalism and where that leads, no one has hopefully to tell you.
This guy’s “institute” is fascinatingly weird:
https://berggruen.org/about
Has anybody told the author about Meloni? Le Pen? Wilders? The AfD?
I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone
Self preservation would suffice
No we don’t need it
I always thought EU hates patriotism/ nationalism. But I do think EU has very strong sense of EU community and most people are proud of what it has built it last years.
And I am very confident they’ll fight hard when that’s threatened. And history has showed nothing unîtes EU like a common enemy 😉.
The EU needs to go through an era of romantic nationalism like the many nations making it up did when forming their national identity. At the moment it’s too divided to make major changes and too stuck in the past end of history and globalisation mindset.
No. Patriotism is the path to nationalism and populism. Americans love to fly flags and look where that has taken them.
Rationality, democracy, science, and education are key.
Maybe invent a fancy greeting, like the wave
Patriotism isn’t about blind allegiance to a political extreme. It’s about loving your country enough to want what’s truly best for it, through reasonable discourse and thoughtful action.
Patriotic about what? Stale economy, dying job markets, governments caring more about taking in cheap workforce to act as a slave class? European countries are doing everything in their power to kill any sense of patriotism.
Work to improve working conditions work to make housing more affordable work to raise the wages of the little guy and stop the rich for avoiding paying taxes and rise the Tex on them if needed stop immigration for a while I know it’s going be hard and really time consuming but this is what people really need right now and if you don’t want to do SOMEBODY ELSE WILL
Fighting populism with tribalism. Whoever wrote this is absolutely braindead.
What’s the European version of nationalism/patriotism? That sounds better than Europhilia.
We need that.
Patriotism the playfield of populists…how…interesting…