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The imperious thought process of Europhiles

According to Europhiles and the EU political system, we the people cannot be allowed democracy, because we would not know what to do with it, and would probably vote the wrong way. We do not understand what is good for us, so we must have a paternalistic government to make decisions for us and look after us, just in case we stray from their predetermined path toward human enlightenment and the betterment of society.

Of course anyone who should raise a voice in protest at theses autocratic utterances are churlishly attacking the benevolence of our rulers, because they go about the place undermining the very society that is being built in our names, they must be lacking in intelligence and understanding, which merely proves the case.

Janet Daley in the Telegraph looks at the difference between the American ideals of Democracy and that which is laughingly passed of as Democracy in Europe.

Better to make your cynical peace with the worst aspects of human nature than to pretend that free men will always choose good over evil. Much better to make a mutually profitable trade-off behind the scenes than to expose political decisions to the popular will. What evidence is there that the people actually know what is best for them? Most charitably, the European philosophy of government - shortly to be permanently installed under the EU constitution - is paternalistic. At worst, it is arrogant and authoritarian.

But whatever it is, it no longer has a belief in real democracy of the kind that Americans recognise - government of the people, by the people and for the people - at its heart.

The people - with nothing but the raw franchise - will never be allowed to run amok again. Europeans cannot be trusted to govern themselves. Their affairs will be administered by an EU oligarchy.

As I have said before all dictatorial systems of government claim that the state know best and they are all equally wrong.