{"id":66146,"date":"2023-11-15T07:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66146"},"modified":"2023-11-15T07:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:36:57","slug":"europe-is-burning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66146","title":{"rendered":"Europe Is Burning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Europe Is Burning<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The only lessons the Old World offers to America these days are cautionary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ever since the earliest days of the Republic, American intellectuals, artists, and statesmen looked to Europe for models.\u00a0Conservatives<\/a>\u00a0felt attracted to the continent\u2019s sense of continuity and tradition, and as the base for Christianity. More recently,\u00a0progressives<\/a>\u00a0saw in European social democracy and globalist pacifism a role model to be embraced.<\/p>\n

Yet today Europe seems not much of a model for much of anything outside of museums, charming cathedral towns, and terrific food. The notion that Europe represents the future, nurtured by the likes of Mitterrand advisor\u00a0Jacques Attali<\/a>, Jeremy Rifkind\u2019s utopian\u00a0European Dream<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0and the American journalist T.R. Reid\u2019s 2005\u00a0The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>seem utterly delusional.<\/p>\n

A common theme in the early years of the millennium was that Europe was on the verge of global resurgence while America was in decline. Europe\u2019s eventual stagnation, as many conservatives point out, can be in part traced to an ever expanding\u00a0high-tax welfare state<\/a>\u00a0that generally absorbs roughly ten more percentage points of GDP than in the U.S. But this is not the only explanation. Some of the\u00a0moderately better off European economies<\/a>, like Denmark and Sweden, are\u00a0welfare states<\/a>\u00a0but manage to outperform the rest.<\/p>\n

The real problem is civilizational. Europeans are unwilling to preserve their industrial base and control their borders, leaving the continent increasingly weak and largely defenseless. The leaderless\u00a0American empire<\/a>\u00a0may be creaking, but Europe is in worse shape, hemmed in by dismal demographics, high taxes, suffocating regulation, and an entrenched bureaucracy that makes California seem like a libertarian paradise.<\/p>\n

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Europe Is Burning The only lessons the Old World offers to America these days are cautionary. Ever since the earliest days of the Republic, American intellectuals, artists, and statesmen looked to Europe for models.\u00a0Conservatives\u00a0felt attracted to the continent\u2019s sense of continuity and tradition, and as the base for Christianity. More recently,\u00a0progressives\u00a0saw in European social democracy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[2132,281,34003,685,34004],"class_list":["post-66146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-civil-unrest","tag-europe","tag-joel-kotkin","tag-revolution","tag-the-american-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66147,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66146\/revisions\/66147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}