Competition within a pollical party
and recognition that a political party is indeed a political party are
essential or at least advantageous to any political party in a democratic
system. Moreover, a republic, even if it contains smaller republics but is not
just them in aggregate, deserves to be recognized as such rather than implicitly
relegated by erroneous nomenclature that is designed to appease skeptics so
they won’t rise up to resist the federal republic itself. “Let the chips fall
where they may” is, I believe, an expression from gambling. Another expression
comes from playing cards: Call a spade a spade. These two expressions evince
truth and power, whereas hiding behind false notions is sheer weakness. Much of
my writing on the European Union is oriented to strengthening it, as well as to
gleam lessons for both the E.U. and U.S. by comparing and contrasting them as
federal empire-scale unions of states.
The full essay is at "On the 2025 Political Convention of the European People's Party."
