--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> This is a familiar saw for long-term readers of LBO.
>
> An imaginary continent called 'Europe' (no less!) is
> lauded, for no other reason than to pour scorn on
> the perceived flaws in American society.
There has been a vast amount of books and articles written in the last five years in Germany dealing the ressentiments of European left-liberal opinion and the perception of America as a sinister counter-Europe.
To me, however, a more interesting study would be to research the tendency of American left-liberals to view Europe as something like a positive counter-America. This list is thick with that sort of sentiment.
Whether immigrants drowning to get into Fortress Europe, or immigrant families brutally ripped apart in deportation actions in Germany, or bombing Yugoslavia, or occupying Afghanistan, nothing can dissuade American left-liberals from their political Europhilia.
It is like an abused wife who refuses to face the truth about her man no matter how much humiliation she is subject to.
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